The Syphon Wave Generator

[LiquidChem]

i was just wondering, i paused at 1:13.. does this need to be primed in some way on initial starting? or can you just place in water and it automatically equalizes..

[homskoult]

Anything that sits in seawater becomes a home to sea life. Boats constantly have their hulls cleaned. The amount of money the Coast Guard spends to clean buoys is astonishing. I don't you have a viable product.

[fuelban]

looks ok, but any debris such as a twig, or float-some or jet-some will block the non return V/V, Indeed fish gather around such floating objects, = blockages, ok put a strum box mesh in there, and you stop ingress flow, I am not convinced this would be workable if scaled up.

Thom.

[josephdupont]

Does the orientation of the wave matter?

does the distance matter?

Have you seen the bouy with the prop on the bottom?

and the bouy tries to climb to the top of the wave.. the prop spins.

[boxsaspen]

They built one in Bergen, Norway. But once there was a storm and it broke. The Norwegian goverment lost their interest in making a new one and it was never rebuilt...

[nonsquid]

Won't it work better if the two tubes were separated (offset) by 1 quarter wave length of the wave frequency? Then you would always have a differential pressure of 1/4 of the wave height.

[RoyOrbiton]

The sealife will make it grind to a halt in a few months, maybe weeks.

Barnacles, seaweed, alges and the occaisional stray fish are your biggest concern I think.

Maybe you could think of some kind of closed system, with water already in there, that get's shuffled from one tank to another, either in one or two directions...?

[jib1000]

Wind and wave power are never going to replace fossil fuels. They would wreak havoc on our ecosystems. The demands of society are too great. We would take all the waves out of the ocean and all the wind out of the atmosphere. The only option is solar collectors placed in low earth orbit.

[bigrobnz]

Honestly, one of the best ideas ever! Just make the valves easily removable for cleaning purposes.

[sbflash311]

I wonder if you could put something like this underneath Navy Pier in Chicago. If you put it under a pier it wouldn't be in the way.

[identernet]

Like the idea. Similar to one I had but I couldn't figure out a valve system that would operate once all the sea life had decided to make a home there. Hope you get round the problem.

[ollieoniel]

good idea

[ozzirt]

A really novel idea. I hope you do well with it.

[ihubanov]

Nice... bur why don't you use AC generator? it doesn't need to convert the movement of the water into one direction :)

[LuxuriousLuxembourg]

how many watts does it make?

[stand52]

GE... Great idea, and I like the fact that it can be free floating with just a bridle type tether that would make a single anchoring point possible and cheap to implement. So many ideas require very robust and expensive anchor methods, such they cost as much or more than the device itself!? One suggestion: If you made the intake and outlet manifolds further apart, it might maximize the potential and make the unit more stable besides, also creating more potential energy. Congratulations! Stan!

[ChemicalMikeUK]

i came up with a theoretical idea similar to this. but had no real idea how to make the idea viable as i am not an engineer. thanks for showing me, now i know!!

[bogdanp9]

nice demonstration, but it's not " It will convert renewable solar energy into electricity." . It converts mechanical wave energy into electricity. the sun has nothing to do with it. anyway good work

[GEdwardCook]

Hi bogdanp9, The sun hits the earth warming the air near the ground causing it to rise and creating wind. Wind is concentrated solar power. The wind blows over the ocean creating the waves. The waves are super concentrated solar power. The Syphon Wave Generator converts the concentrated solar power stored in the wave into electricity.

[bogdanp9]

I understand now. I didn't think in depth. Sorry for disagreeing with you. Thanks for the explanation :)

[Odziz]

That was one of the simplest and best demonstrations I've seen for a long time.

Can't wait to see further developments and an up scaled version.

[presentview321]

and they could have spring nets around them to keep seaweed and fish from entering pipe.

[presentview321]

these umbrella external valves could use floats at the ends to help equalize the forces under water.

[presentview321]

you could make them motion like an unbrella just below the valves.

[presentview321]

there goes that part of patent.

[agungk]

Suggestion:

How about bigger pipes for the leg sections?

Therefore the differential water pressure will work on larger volume of water. Since the transfer (horizontal) part stay the same, the water flow trough the generator vanes should increase.