Accession Number:

AD0744202

Title:

Windmill Generator for the Bumblebee Buoy,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY LA JOLLA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Brown,Daniel M.

Report Date:

1972-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

18.0

Abstract:

The problem of supplying power to a small buoy that must stay at sea for a year to a year and a half is a problem with many facets. There are various schemes for providing buoy power, but in nearly all cases the problem revolves around two flaws -- cost and weight and in many cases the schemes dont work at sea. Due to a variety of problems, the windmill generator has been passed over as a power source, yet for small buoys it remains one of the most practical. Its potential led the author to select a windmill and design a buoy which would make the windmill work. This windmill has now been tested a sea for 13 months and proven its ability to survive the ocean environment and storms. Author

Descriptors:

• *GENERATORS
• *MOORING BUOYS
• *MARINE METEOROLOGY
• POWER SUPPLIES
• MOORING BUOYS
• ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION
• COSTS
• WEIGHT
• STORMS
• DAMAGE
• WIND
• BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
• TEST METHODS

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology
• Electric Power Production and Distribution

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE