Energy System with C02 Extraction

A wind turbine assembly comprising:

• a main housing including a plurality of upright wall portions and a plurality of inlet openings located in respective upright wall portions on different sides of the housing;
• a wind turbine supported within the housing which includes a turbine duct communicating from a turbine inlet to a turbine outlet which is exhausted externally of the housing, and a turbine rotor which is rotatable within the turbine duct and which is arranged to be driven to rotate in response to a flow of air through the turbine duct;
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• an inlet duct arranged for communication between each inlet opening and the turbine inlet;
• wherein each inlet duct comprises at least one movable boundary wall partition which is movable between an operable position forming a portion of a boundary of the respective inlet duct which obstructs communication of at least one other inlet duct with the turbine inlet and a stored position in which communication of said at least one other inlet duct is substantially unobstructed by the movable boundary wall partition.

A wind energy device comprising:

• a housing including walls surrounding a hollow interior extending in a longitudinal direction between an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end of the housing;
• a valve device cooperative with the inlet of the housing so as to be cyclically operable between an open position permitting a prescribed wind flow through in the inlet into the housing and a closed position in which wind flow through the inlet into the housing is at least partially restricted relative to the open position so as to generate an intermittent flow through the housing;
• at least one oscillating blade member supported in the hollow interior of the housing so as to extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the housing between a first end coupled to the housing and a second end which is freely suspended within the hollow interior, said at least one oscillating blade member comprising:
• a main body which is flexible in a direction corresponding to the second end of the oscillating blade member being movable generally in the longitudinal direction of the housing such that the main body is arranged to oscillate in respective to said intermittent flow;
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• piezoelectric material coupled to the main body so as to be subjected to bending stresses of the main body so as to create an electrical current in response to oscillations of the main body.

A wind turbine assembly comprising:

• a buoyant housing arranged to be buoyantly supported on a body of water;
• a wind turbine supported on the housing above a surface of the body of water which includes a turbine duct communicating from a turbine inlet to a turbine outlet which is exhausted externally of the housing, and a turbine rotor which is rotatable within the turbine duct and which is arranged to be driven to rotate in response to a flow of air through the turbine duct;
• a plurality of anchoring cables, each extending between a first end coupled to the frame and a second end arranged to be coupled to a fixed structure;
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• a biasing element coupled to each cable so as to bias the cable away from a first position in which the first and second ends of the cable are at a first prescribed distance relative to one another towards at least one second position in which the first and second ends of the cable are at a second prescribed distance relative to one another which is less than the first prescribed distance.

A wind turbine assembly comprising:

• a wind turbine including a turbine duct communicating from a turbine inlet to a turbine outlet, and a turbine rotor which is rotatable within the turbine duct and which is arranged to be driven to rotate in response to a flow of air through the turbine duct;
• an inlet duct having boundary walls defining an inlet passage communicating between an inlet opening of the inlet duct arranged to receive a flow of wind therein and the turbine inlet;
• an auxiliary supply fan communicating through one of the boundary walls of the inlet duct between the inlet opening and the turbine inlet so as to be arranged to supply an auxiliary flow of air to the inlet duct;
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• a gate operable between an open position in which the inlet opening is substantially unobstructed by the gate and a closed position in which the inlet opening is closed by the gate.