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Briza Technologies Introduces a Patent Pending New Technology
for Wind Turbines: The Hovering Wind Turbine.
Tuesday November 30, 6:00pm ET
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ – November 30
-- Briza Technologies, Inc., is a wholly private owned
Corporation based in Hillsborough, NJ, developing innovative
products and services for the domestic and international
markets. Among these are the wireless and telecommunications
field, wireless payment systems, data capture and management and
internet security devices. Briza is now introducing a new patent
pending technology to produce energy cheaper than fossil fuels,
non-polluting, renewable, and without global warming: The
Hovering Wind Turbines.
Briza
is proud to introduce the Hovering Wind Turbine (HWT) technology
to produce clean and renewable energy less expensive than
propeller-driven turbines, and the financing for this project is
being arranged by Briza's New York investment bankers, utilizing
a variety of U.S. and international public/private mechanisms
that are available for the financing of new and renewable
sources of energy.
Currently there are three designs of wind turbines, with some
innovative new designs currently being developed. The three are
the propeller-driven turbines, the Darrieus turbines, and the
helical generators. Each of these designs can be modified to
operate in offshore wind farms, however they do require complex
towers or similar constructions to hold them in place.
Darrieus Turbines - Unlike propeller turbines, are turbines that
incorporate a vertical drive shaft into the blade design so that
the blades can capture the wind from whichever direction the
wind comes. This turbine-assembling configuration eliminates the
need for the tower.
Darrieus turbines by design are placed close to ground level, which
make them susceptible to natural obstacles, buildings, trees,
hills, and others objects that could be in the way; blocking the
wind.
Many measures have been proposed for capturing the tremendous
energy available in high altitude winds, but most of them were
impractical, high in cost, unreliable, and inefficient.
“It would be extremely desirable to have the turbines installed
in high altitude high winds, since wind electrical power
generation is proportional to the speed of the wind cubed. This
means that if the wind speed doubles, the power generated is
multiplied by eight.” Said doctor Macedo, the inventor of the
Hovering Wind Turbine.
HWT’s
technology offers a practical, reliable, and very efficient
solution to install the wind turbines without the need for
towers at high altitudes, where winds are normally stronger than
closer to ground level. This means the potential to produce more
electricity with much smaller rotors,
since turbines would be capturing the high velocity high
altitude winds.
“The world’s largest wind farm, Horns Rev offshore wind farm in
Denmark, comprises 80 wind turbines each rated at 2000 kilowatt.
The total weight of each turbine is 100 tons. It requires a
160-ton tower supported by a 200-ton foundation rammed up to 25
meters into the seabed. The cost of project was 270 million EUR,
which represents 1687 EUR per installed kilowatt. If HWT
technology were used for this project the need for these towers
would be eliminated, which it would result in tremendous
reductions of the cost and the complexity of this operation”,
said Ivan Silva, President and CEO of Briza Technologies.
Wind turbines that are capable of generating 1 MW of electrical
energy are now relatively common among the propeller-driven
turbines. A turbine this size could provide sufficient
electricity to power approximately 300 US homes, and save over
2000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
HWT eliminates the need
of expensive towers; it provides the meanings to capture the
tremendous energy available in high altitude winds; its modular
configuration allows huge economy of scale; and it is the only
economic solution for deeper offshore wind farm applications.
HWT can also be used to produce hydrogen, cheaper than fossil
fuels, non-polluting, and with no global warming.
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