A windturbine sailship
Without rotor blades and
without maritime anchoring
Without rotor blades and
without maritime anchoring
SAILXL is programmed to go upwind in order to convert the phenomenal lift force of the sail into a hydro-motive force, the force being usually dissipated as a simple anti-drift force in a classic sailing ship.
A true
alternative to classical existing windturbines, she converts a
sailing boat's anti drift force into energy. The rotors turn
an alternator allowing the installed Tesla battery packs to
recharge.
She sails like an ordinary sailboat,
without a stationary property footprint on the oceans, without
poluting and without being an eyesore from the coast. She uses the
dominants opensea winds like any other windturbines, but is
able, in periods of high pressure, when there is no wind, to go
near the coasts to get the thermal breezes to store
progressively its green energy.
After sailing to an offshore plateform or port terminal, SAILXL will connect to the port grid to
supply the electrons allowing to balance the power grid in real time.
Then it will sail to the open seas allowing the sailboat to find the
best winds depending on its location and weather conditions. SAILXL can then recharge its capacity in all
circumstances and everywhere.
To measure SAILXL "12 MWh", we took example of the 10
MWh battery regulation/storage center RINGO of EDF made of
ten 40 foot containers given 3 MWh per container.
The boat basket of SAILXL
"12 MWh" is 24 meters long, 6 meters wide et 3.60 meters high. The
boat basket is 75 tons, it is equivalent of the battery life of
231 Renault "ZOE" cars.
A SAILXL "12 MWh" offshore windturbine is
etimated at 2.9 millions euros …
France has nowadays around 10000 land windturbines and they produce 2
times less than the offshore windturbines… 5000 SAILXL "12 MWh" offshore windturbines
should be able to store an average 60GWh a day, or the equivalent of
1.16 millions Renault "ZOE" cars.
Every connected SAILXL
"12 MWh" offshore windturbine will be similar to a link in the
electrical network RINGO of EDF, therefore ready to regulate downward
variations of our clean energy production system.
Then, the investment will be of 14.5 billion euros (2.9M€x5000) spread out over 10 years ... EDF wants to invest in the next 10 years 15 billion euros in the RINGO network simply to go along with the green energies production fluctuations...
