Abstract: The disclosed propeller/turbine blade enhancement will be used in the moving fluid kinetic energy conversion field. This turbine blade skirt enhancement to a propeller/turbine bladed assembly will increase the kinetic energy conversion of the assembly on which the enhancement has been made a part of. The disclosed turbine blade skirt will contact and redirect a portion of the moving fluid the propeller/turbine bladed assembly is converting into mechanical rotational energy. The contacting and redirecting the fluid from the least efficient conversion areas of the assembly to the more efficient conversion areas of the assembly increases the amount of mechanical rotational energy obtained from the assembly.

Abstract: The disclosed propeller/turbine blade enhancement will be used in the moving fluid kinetic energy conversion field. This power channel blade enhancement will increase the kinetic energy conversion of propeller/turbine blades by collecting, redirecting, channeling, compressing and then expelling a portion of the moving fluid that would otherwise be lost. The power channel's multiple interactions with the moving fluid impacting the blade will produce known fluid hydraulic actions upon the enhanced propeller/turbine blades. These known fluid hydraulic actions will impart more rotational energy to the power channel enhanced blades than previous propeller/turbine blades.

Abstract: An improved propeller/turbine blade assembly with wide faced blades in order to more efficiently convert a moving fluid's kinetic energy into mechanical rotational energy by optimizing the bladed assembly's frontal surface interaction with the swept blade area of a moving fluid. This improved blade surface interaction is accomplished through new and novel design features of the assembly's blades. These design features include the following; that the designed assembly has a much larger total blade footprint than prior bladed assemblies, that the assembly's blades overlap each other with the leading edge of the following blade overlapping the trailing edge of the preceding blade, that the assembly has multiple designed blade twist angles that occur within each blade and at segmented lengths along each blade and that the assembly's blades are dimensionally segmented with width to length ratios as a percentage of overall length.

Abstract: An underwater hydro-electric farm comprising a plurality of electrical generator assemblies arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a body of water within an ocean current path to take generate power from a kinetic energy caused by the flow of the underwater current. Each assembly is installed in a cradle, which is anchored with a pile driven system to the bottom surface. Each assembly is a modular system allowing for easy swapping out of an assembly under water. Generated power is transmitted to a land based facility directly to or through an intermediate transfer station. Generator portion may have internally or externally supported field windings. Various configurations of propellers may be used, some with channels or solid vanes and another being a spiral shaped propeller. All water exposed surfaces of the generator and propeller portions are coated with a non-conductive, heat dissipating, anti-fouling and water specific protective coating.

Abstract: An underwater hydroelectric farm comprising a plurality of electrical generator assemblies arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a body of water within an ocean current path to take generate power from a kinetic energy caused by the flow of the underwater current. Each assembly is installed in a cradle, which is anchored with a pile driven system to the bottom surface. Each assembly is a modular system allowing for easy swapping out of an assembly under water. Generated power is transmitted to a land based facility directly to or through an intermediate transfer station. Generator portion may have internally or externally supported field windings. Various configurations of propellers may be used, some with channels or solid vanes and another being a spiral shaped propeller. All water exposed surfaces of the generator and propeller portions are coated with a non-conductive, heat dissipating, anti-fouling and water specific protective coating.

Abstract: An underwater hydro-electric farm comprising a plurality of electrical generator assemblies arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a body of water within an ocean current path to take generate power from a kinetic energy caused by the flow of the underwater current. Each assembly is installed in a cradle, which is anchored with a pile driven system to the bottom surface. Each assembly is a modular system allowing for easy swapping out of an assembly under water. Generated power is transmitted to a land based facility directly to or through an intermediate transfer station. Generator portion may have internally or externally supported field windings. Various configurations of propellers may be used, some with channels or solid vanes and another being a spiral shaped propeller. All water exposed surfaces of the generator and propeller portions are coated with a non-conductive, heat dissipating, anti-fouling and water specific protective coating.

Abstract: An underwater hydro-electric farm comprising a plurality of electrical generator assemblies arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a body of water within an ocean current path to take generate power from a kinetic energy caused by the flow of the underwater current. Each assembly is installed in a cradle, which is anchored with a pile driven system to the bottom surface. Each assembly is a modular system allowing for easy swapping out of an assembly under water. Generated power is transmitted to a land based facility directly to or through an intermediate transfer station. Generator portion may have internally or externally supported field windings. Various configurations of propellers may be used, some with channels or solid vanes and another being a spiral shaped propeller. All water exposed surfaces of the generator and propeller portions are coated with a non-conductive, heat dissipating, anti-fouling and water specific protective coating.

Abstract: An underwater hydro-electric farm comprising a plurality of electrical generator assemblies arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a body of water within an ocean current path to take generate power from a kinetic energy caused by the flow of the underwater current. Each assembly is installed in a cradle, which is anchored with a pile driven system to the bottom surface. Each assembly is a modular system allowing for easy swapping out of an assembly under water. Generated power is transmitted to a land based facility directly to or through an intermediate transfer station. Generator portion may have internally or externally supported field windings. Various configurations of propellers may be used, some with channels or solid vanes and another being a spiral shaped propeller. All water exposed surfaces of the generator and propeller portions are coated with a non-conductive, heat dissipating, anti-fouling and water specific protective coating.