DESIGN AND BENEFIT POTENTIALS OF SYNERGISTIC CURRENT AND OFFSHORE WIND (SCOW) SYSTEMS

摘要

Offshore wind, ocean current, and tidal current renewable energy systems, taken together, have global terawatt-scale power potential with zero carbon emissions. "Synergistic Current and Offshore Wind (SCOW) Systems" constitute a paradigm-shifting new class of renewable energy harvesting inventions that simultaneously capture ocean / tidal current energy below the water surface and offshore wind energy above the water surface. Many offshore deployment sites exist worldwide with high power densities below and above the water surface. Optimal implementation of production SCOW Systems could occur at such high-potential locations including the Gulf Stream Current off the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.A.; the Alaska Current; the Kuroshio Current off the coast of Japan; the Brazil, Agulhas and East Australian Currents; the Antarctic Circumpolar Current; and also at locations with strong tidal currents plus high winds such as sites offshore from Maine, Alaska, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom and the Philippines amongst others.