Wave generator instead of hydro electric dam

[Ronald Bolivar Chua]

Has anyone ever explored this idea? The premise is to create a floodgate that is triggered by gravity and have a reservoir behind it. The times release of water is done through gravity and the weight of water behind the flood gate and the next gate revolution follows the water released until the weight of the reservoir exceeds the lock of the floodgate. The idea is to have the water wall travel at a decline building weight behind ... These ... move when the full weight of the wall of water is behind them, but do not convert into rotary motion instead converting into tension/torque transferrance. All ... platforms will transfer the water’s weight into held torque, the transfer the potential torque into rotary motion at the turbine mid facility. The water then travels upon an incline metal grill where water is channeled to another reservoir. This secondary reservoir also has a gravity flood gate and returns with the same premise.

Question 1: Does anyone know any good mechanisms to transfer tension
Question 2: Both hydro electricturbine dam(construct) reservoir and this wave generating conversion require an off level reservoir or dam shunt. Would the cost be more effective behind the hydro electric dam turbine than the wave force conversion system?





Water wall force conversion?
Or
Water fall to turbine conversion?

[Rob Beckers]

Hi Ronald,

You don't mention how the reservoir gets filled with water, so I'm assuming you're not trying to design a perpetual motion machine. That's good!

There already are various generators that work directly of off wave motion, i.e. they convert linear water motion somehow into rotary motion to electricity from a regular generator. At the end of the day even a water wheel does that too, or a turbine (Pelton wheel etc.). I've seen some ingenious schemes with floating "walls" where the bottom is anchored to the sea floor and the top floats at water level. The wave motion moves these walls back and forth, which is converted to rotary by means of flywheel and drive rod (much like the old steam engines turned the wheels from a steam piston).

At the end of the day the question is why you'd want to do this, when conversion of water to energy from a reservoir already works pretty well using regular means. If you could explain the particular problem you're trying to solve with this it could help to find a fitting solution.

-RoB-