A water based renewable energy system is shown which uses tidal flow and an associated water wheel/weir assembly to provide pumping power for the system A water wheel powered pump and associated piping are used to raise water from a lower lake reservoir to a higher storage lake reservoir The water which is pumped to the higher storage lake can be released to a generator located at a lower elevation and then returned to the lower storage lake The cycle can then be repeated by again pumping water from the lower lake to the upper lake The pumped storage provides flow and head to generate electric power through the turbine generator

Renewable energy system

An hydraulic electrical generator comprises a plurality of water wheels, means connecting said wheels hydraulically in series with at least two said water wheels being driven in the same sense, an individual electrical generator driven individually by each said water wheel, and mechanical means mechanically connecting said at least two water wheels being driven in the same sense together.

Hydro electrical generator

The invention is a transportable hydroelectric power generating system which is capable of being fully or partially assembled in a factory setting and then transported to a water stream. The system includes water channeling features which enhance the pressure within the system that the water exerts and a secondary pump feature which serves to further supply pressurized water to the impellers on the water wheels. Thus marginal streams may become power generating sites.

Transportable hydro-electric generating system with improved water pressure enhancement feature

The present invention pertains to hydroelectric generation devices, and more particularly pertains to a fixed or floating paddlewheel electric generation device that may be placed in any flowing liquid source in order to generate power. Such an overall power generating system includes a paddlewheel component that is situated within an artificial channel properly configured to increase the velocity of the flowing liquid therethrough, thereby providing a manner of generating paddlewheel rotation at a speed greater than that relative to the main body of the fluid itself. The inventive system thus permits power generation through the capture of the kinetic energy derived from the paddlewheel rotation at a level that is acceptable in relation to available hydrokinetic energy of the fluid source.

Power generating floating vessel

The invention is a transportable hydroelectric power generating system which is capable of being fully or partially assembled in a factory setting and then transported to a water stream. The system includes either a wind-driven or solar-powered pump or both features which serve to further supply pressurized water to the impellers on the water wheels. Thus marginal streams may become power generating sites.

Transportable hydro-electric generating system with improved water pressure enhancement feature activation systems

An elongated channel has an entrance leg and a parallel exit leg and a loop therebetween at one end and a sump at the other end into which the exit leg empties. A power supply operates a fluid in the sump to deliver fluid into the entrance leg. A plurality of spaced paddle wheels are mounted for rotation on supports above the channel with each paddle wheel having a plurality of spaced substantially radially directed paddles conforming in shape to the space within the channel and being slightly spaced therefrom to inhibit any contact therewith. A plurality of generators are driven by the plurality of paddle wheels, and the generators are coupled to utilization or storage devices for using or storing the energy harnessed by the generators. Additional intermediate legs of the channel and other loops can form a sineous path from the location of delivery of fluid by the pump to the location of emptying of the exit leg into the sump. The paddle wheels in the exit legs are offset from the paddle wheels in the entrance legs, so that a plurality of elongated shafts can connect aligned paddle wheels in the entrance legs, and another plurality of elongated shafts can connect aligned paddle wheels in the exit legs. The generators are connected to the plurality and another plurality of the shafts. The channel may be level with the sump disposed below or it may be slightly higher in elevation at the location of delivery of the fluid into the entrance channel and descend in elevation at the location of emptying of the exit leg into the sump.

Michael Agostino

Papers

Fluid driven power system