Relativistic generator license opportunity |
Rogue River Wind is proud to announce a radical new breakthrough in generator design. Modern generator technology began with Barlow and Faraday in England, and rather quickly matured through the dynamo into the recognizably modern generator by about 1900. In the period just before the First World War, around 1915, wind turbines in US farm use reached high numbers of installations, which they perhaps have not again equaled even now. Many of these wind turbines did not incorporate any electrical generation, as they were mechanical water pumping systems. Ironically, rural electrification and the large scale distribution grid utility model ended the reign of the wind turbines, and also ended an entire generation of small local city based power generation systems, as an era of mass hydropower began, together with coal fired electrical plants. When US wind power reemerged as a large scale power generating concept, perhaps in the Altamont in California in 1981 or so, large scale continental grid tied electrical systems were firmly in place, while much more efficient micro-grid or small scale electrical systems in public use were uncommon, except perhaps in fail safe backup roles, as in local fuel cell hospital applications. Contemporary generator design initially posed significant problems at the Altamont, as over speed induction generators were first tried, before ongoing wind turbine installations became evidently successful, together with the consequent need for modern generator design. The Relativistic Generator The present generator design discussed here features an extremely low internal impedance and net DC resistance, more characteristic of a UNIPOLAR generator design. As the peak inductance in the system is also very low, the system is very wide band from a power production power curve, output point of view. With low internal resistance and reactance, the generator couples efficiently with the same essential characteristic input wind source, and also couples efficiently with the same characteristic output ULTRACAPACITOR load. The design has no inductive wound coils. Plasma or laser cutters will be required to cut continuous and precise shapes. There is no inductive steel significantly reducing total weight. The design incorporates a magnet topology that requires only 1/5 the neodymium used in traditional generators. As a low resistance device there are no heating or cooling concerns The general topology can be elementally reconfigured into all different generator design aspects and parameters, from axial to radial. It can function as stacked element generator in a traditional BIG WIND megawatt power mode, or as the power-generating element in a wind turbine based micro grid configuration. It can be used in a radial mode as wheel based motor in an electric vehicle design, or in water driven electrical generation modes. It can replace any traditional field coil or rare earth permanent magnet generator design in most applications, as an efficient coupling element between a mechanical power input, and an electrical power output. It can even be a stepper motor in a disk drive mechanism. As the generator uses no flux targets there is no magnetic hysteresis. The generator has low internal loss and no thermal loss. The generator operates at a high bandwidth, requires low starting torque and has zero cogging. The direct drive generator can be scaled and stacked to replace existing generators in traditional wind turbines and eliminate the need for gearboxes and reduce the weight at the top of a tower by over 2/3. These combined features result in a 15% efficiency gain over contemporary generator designs. This technology is available for licensing for specific applications For information please contact Mary Geddry, CEO Rogue River Wind, Ltd mgeddry@mgx.com |
