Seafloor power station
OwnerW. Z. (Zack) Hayman IIIinventor
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Abstract
The Seafloor Power Station is one or more unmanned electric power generating Units (2) sending power to and operated from existing coastal sites by a manned facility (1) by connecting lines and hoses (3) delivering power to a grid by lines (4). Each Unit's hull (11) maintained in a vacuum, contains both nuclear steam and electricity generating systems. The hull functions as overpressure containment and as condenser in the event of a loss of coolant accident or other steam release. The Units operate submerged in very cold water, with depth set by remotely controlled vertical mooring systems, mounted on gravity mats (27). A Unit must be surfaced by its mooring system to refuel the reactor, an action both conspicuous and public, enabling international oversight of the fuel disposition.
Claims12
A coastal electric power generating station, that can be added to existing generating stations and waste water treatment plants, using their outfalls as conduits, wherein the improvement is:
- a safe and accessible manned facility ashore to receive power and control operation of one or more remote generating Units;
- alternatively,
- this facility on an island or platform, if offshore distance of the Units dictates, sending high voltage power ashore,
- a gravity mat on the seafloor as anchor, with an installed vertical mooring system, submerging or surfacing an unmanned hull as directed, this hull housing nuclear steam and electricity generators;
- each such installation operated as a remote generating Unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.