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公开(公告)号：WO2023076309A1
公开(公告)日：2023-05-04
申请号：PCT/US2022/047773
申请日：2022-10-25
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Inventor： SHELDON-COULSON, Garth Alexander , MOFFAT, Brian Lee
Abstract: A method by which an environmental energy (e.g., wave energy) is harvested, converted into electrical power, and thereafter used to electrolyze seawater into hydrogen and chlorine gases. Those gases are recombined into hydrogen chloride from which is formed hydrochloric acid solution which is diluted and deposited at a depth sufficient to ensure its neutralization and sequestration for a significant period of time (e.g., for over a millennium). By removing chloride ions from a portion of the sea adjacent to its upper surface and depositing them into a portion of the sea more adjacent to its bottom, acidity is shifted from the surface to base of the sea, and the surface ocean is given a greater ability to absorb and buffer atmospheric carbon dioxide without a corresponding increase in acidity.
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公开(公告)号：WO2022093909A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-05
申请号：PCT/US2021/056773
申请日：2021-10-27
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Inventor： FILIP, Grzegorz Piotr , MOFFAT, Brian Lee
Abstract: Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
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公开(公告)号：WO2021102396A1
公开(公告)日：2021-05-27
申请号：PCT/US2020/061713
申请日：2020-11-22
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Inventor： SHELDON-COULSON, Garth Alexander , MOFFAT, Brian Lee , PLACE, Daniel William , THORSON, Ivar Lee
Abstract: Disclosed is an autonomous vessel comprising a hydrodynamic pump that converts the energy of ocean waves into electrical power when the vessel is floating adjacent to an upper surface of an ocean, and utilizes a portion of the generated electrical power produced to charge an electrical energy storage device. The vessel may submerge itself, and then propel itself beneath the water's surface, after which it may return to the surface and resume its production of electrical energy and recharge its electrical energy storage device.
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公开(公告)号：WO2020036962A1
公开(公告)日：2020-02-20
申请号：PCT/US2019/046357
申请日：2019-08-13
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Abstract: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tubes constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air, gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the devices pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
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公开(公告)号：WO2019143695A1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-25
申请号：PCT/US2019/013812
申请日：2019-01-16
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Abstract: An energy-harvesting compute grid includes computing assemblies that cooperate with mobile energy harvesters configured to be deployed on a body of water. The plurality of energy harvesters are positioned on and move adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water, and the locations of the energy harvesters can be monitored and controlled. The widespread gathering by the harvesters of environmental data within that geospatial area permits the forecasting of environmental factors, the discovery of advantageous energy-harvesting opportunities, the observation and tracking of hazardous objects and conditions, the efficient distribution of data and/or tasks to and between the harvesters included in the compute grid, the efficient execution of logistical operations to support, upgrade, maintain, and repair the cluster, and the opportunity to execute data-gathering across an area much larger than that afforded by an individual harvester (e.g., radio astronomy, 3D tracking of and recording of the communication patterns of marine mammals, etc.). The computational tasks can be shared and distributed among a compute grid implemented in part by a collection of individual floating self-propelled energy harvesters thereby providing many benefits related to cost and efficiency that are unavailable to relatively isolated energy harvesters, and likewise unavailable to terrestrial compute grids of the prior art.
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公开(公告)号：WO2019136007A1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-11
申请号：PCT/US2018/068023
申请日：2018-12-28
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
IPC: F03B13/26
Abstract: Disclosed is a novel buoyant device that extracts energy from winds and waves moving across the surface of a body of water and supplies at least a portion 5 of that energy to an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV). An embodiment operates in deep water, potentially far from shore, and operates at least one UUV for the purpose of exploring the local water column and adjacent seafloor.
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公开(公告)号：WO2022146789A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-07
申请号：PCT/US2021/064619
申请日：2021-12-21
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over that waves pass. Passing waves, and/or the motions they impart to the apparatus as they pass, result in a net and/or effective propulsion of the apparatus in at least a first direction relative to the geometry and/or structure of the apparatus, and typically, at least in part, toward a direction from that waves approach the apparatus.
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公开(公告)号：WO2021168125A1
公开(公告)日：2021-08-26
申请号：PCT/US2021/018596
申请日：2021-02-18
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Inventor： SHELDON-COULSON, Garth Alexander , MOFFAT, Brian Lee , PLACE, Daniel William , THORSON, Ivar Lee
Abstract: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. Embodiments incorporate an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tubes constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying fluid-flow oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or the devices pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, dissolved minerals extraction, or cloud seeding. Methods are disclosed for manufacture of hydrogen at sea and for delivery of said hydrogen using a ship. Methods are disclosed for filling a hydrogen-loaded carrier ship at sea.
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公开(公告)号：WO2019147983A1
公开(公告)日：2019-08-01
申请号：PCT/US2019/015216
申请日：2019-01-25
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Inventor： MOFFAT, Brian Lee , SHELDON-COULSON, Garth Alexander
Abstract: Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from winds that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoys receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
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公开(公告)号：WO2022216391A1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-13
申请号：PCT/US2022/019026
申请日：2022-03-04
Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Inventor： THORSON, Ivar, Lee , SHELDON-COULSON, Garth Alexander , MOFFAT, Brian, Lee , PLACE, Daniel, William
IPC: F03B13/22
Abstract: A flow regulation system for regulating a flow of a fluid from a fluid reservoir is disclosed having a fluid reservoir container, an effluent conduit adapted to discharge fluid from the fluid reservoir container, and a fluid turbine disposed in the effluent conduit. A generator connected to the fluid turbine for converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, and a power conditioning module is energized by the generator to alter voltage and current characteristics of electricity generated by the generator. A load manager to monitor operational characteristic of the flow regulation systems. The load manager responds to a change in operational characteristics by sending a signal to alter an electrical load characteristic selected from the group comprising a clock frequency of digital computing circuits in the electrical load, a mean rate of digital switching operations of digital computing circuits in the electrical load, and a current draw of the electrical load.
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