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US 2020/0318616 A1Published application
Energy Collector
AssigneeBabwe Barton Enterprises Limited
InventorsChristopher Barton, Timothy Smeda
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Abstract
The invention provides an energy collector which includes an electrostatic drive to increase the acceleration of a rotor to maximize the proportion of the time at which the collector is able to efficiently generate power.
Claims19
An energy collector for collecting energy from a flow of fluid, the collector having:
- one or more inlets for receiving a flow of fluid;
- a rotor mounted for rotation;
- a turbine mounted on said rotor for receiving fluid flow from at least one of said inlets, to drive said rotor into rotation;
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- an electrostatic motor arranged to accelerate the rotor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.