Thank you for the advice. The idea of adopting the concept as solar thermal ship propulsion system is interesting. To summarise, the system would create a strong updraft, thanks to higher temperature and humidity in the foundation, and lighter-than-air wings, tethered like kites above this foundation, would combine the updraft and the horizontal winds to move the ship forward, changing their angle between horizontal and vertical, depending on the combined wind direction. Also, the wings could possibly be angled individually, accounting for the different winds at different altitudes. The main load would be on the tether which has to pull the ship. I would like to carry out this project as postgraduate research, can you recommend a university and researchers who are interested in this topic? Sincerely, Svetlana Tkachenko.
On Saturday, May 4, 2013 2:31:11 AM UTC+9:30, MarkCapron wrote: > > Svetlana, > > Your concept may combine well with Dr. Salter's cloud seeding ship > approach. > > Check with some stakeholders in ship propulsion systems - the people > making kite sails for cargo ships, California Air Pollution Control Board, > cargo ship operators. Have handy some dimensions for the 1MW and 10MW > versions. > > It should be possible to use lighter-than-air wing foil cross-sections > instead of spherical balloons to support the pipe. Wing sections, oriented > either horizontally, or vertically, or angled, open the possibility of > combining wind-sail power with wind-up-the-pipe power. Cargoship kite-sail > designers may be able to design-construct a sail that doubles as a pipe > with relatively little material, perhaps only occasionally needing the > lighter-than-air feature. > > Mark E. Capron, PE > Oxnard, California > www.PODenergy.org > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [geo] Power-generating system to transfer heat from Earth to > upper troposphere > From: [email protected] <javascript:> > Date: Thu, May 02, 2013 5:52 pm > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > Hi all, > > My Bachelor thesis is related to the topic of this group. > > It involved modelling a power-generating system located between the Earth > surface and the upper layers of the troposphere, an important side effect > of operation of which is direct cooling of the atmosphere through those > layers, working against global warming directly. Within the model > assumptions, the system works. > > Please look here: > https://sites.google.com/site/atmospericengines/open > > I want to continue this work as postgraduate research, can anybody please > advise how I can find a university and researcher that can be interested in > this topic? > > During the initial stage, the model has a lot of approximations and > simplifications which may be investigated as a part of postgraduate > research, for example, phase transitions in negative temperatures, flow > viscosity and details of the engineering task of holding the construction > weight. > > Regards, > Svetlana Thachenko. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
