Wave electro-hydrodynamic device
AssigneeAccio Energy, Inc.
InventorsFrancis Mills, Dawn White, David Carmein
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Abstract
A system for energy extraction from a fluid stream including a wave pump configured to pump a volume of liquid from a liquid source in response to wave motion of the liquid source; a charge source, fluidly connected to the volume of fluid, that emits a charged droplet of the volume of fluid into the fluid stream, the charged droplet having a first polarity; and an electrical isolation mechanism configured to selectively electrically isolate the charge source from the wave pump.
Claims20
A system for energy extraction from a fluid stream comprising:
- a wave pump configured to pump a volume of liquid from a liquid source in response to wave motion of the liquid source;
- and
- a charge source, fluidly connected to the volume of fluid, that emits a charged droplet of the volume of fluid into the fluid stream, the charged droplet having a first polarity.
A method for energy extraction by a system from a fluid stream, comprising:
- pumping liquid from a liquid source to an emitter using a wave power device fluidly connected to the liquid source using power harnessed from motion of the liquid source;
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- introducing a charged droplet of the pumped liquid into the fluid stream from the emitter, the charged droplet having a first polarity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.