Rainwater Harvesting System
AssigneeX Development LLC
InventorKathleen Cooper
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Abstract
A system for collection of rainwater in the open ocean may include: (a) one or more ocean-going vessels, wherein each ocean-going vessel is configured for collection and storage of rainwater, wherein each ocean-going vessel is configured to drift with surface ocean currents in order to navigate to one or more delivery locations, wherein each delivery location is on or near to a land mass; and (b) one or more delivery stations located at the one or more delivery locations, wherein each delivery station is configured to receive stored rainwater from one or more of the ocean-going vessels.
Claims21
1-18. (canceled)
An autonomous ocean-going vessel comprising:
- a chamber for storing cargo contained within a volume of the chamber;
- two or more independently operated propellers;
- and
- a housing comprising:
- a plurality of sensors that detect at least one environmental characteristic and at least one characteristic of the cargo contained within the volume of the chamber;
- a central control system that controls a direction of travel of the chamber based on feedback provided by the plurality of sensors;
- and
- a power generator that provides power to the sensors and the central control system.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving data from a plurality of sensors that detect at least one environmental characteristic and at least one characteristic of cargo contained within a volume of a chamber of an autonomous ocean-going vessel;
- determining, based on the at least one environmental parameter or the at least one characteristic of cargo contained within the volume of the chamber of the autonomous ocean-going vessel, one or more navigation parameters;
- and
- controlling, based on the one or more navigation parameters, two or more independently operated propellers of the autonomous ocean-going vessel to control a direction or a depth of the autonomous ocean-going vessel.
At least one computer-readable storage medium encoded with executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving data from a plurality of sensors that detect at least one environmental characteristic and at least one characteristic of cargo contained within a volume of a chamber of an autonomous ocean-going vessel;
- determining, based on the at least one environmental parameter or the at least one characteristic of cargo contained within the volume of the chamber of the autonomous ocean-going vessel, one or more navigation parameters;
- and
- controlling, based on the one or more navigation parameters, two or more independently operated propellers of the autonomous ocean-going vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.