Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating power by compressing and expanding a first fluid in inward and outward extending first fluid passages within a centrifuge type rotating rotor. In a closed form of the turbine, heat is supplied to the first fluid by circulating a second fluid in a heat exchanger within the rotor, and heat is removed from from the first fluid by circulating a third fluid through another heat exchanger. A regenerator type heat exchanger is provided for removing heat from the first fluid during compression and adding heat into said first fluid during expansion; thus, heat is taken from one stream of the first fluid and the same heat is added into another stream of of the first fluid within the rotor. Alternately, two rotors may be used, with a second rotor serving as the power output rotor. Also, in an open form, the cooling heat exchanger may be deleted, with the first fluid entering from outside of the rotor and being discharged to outside said rotor.

Abstract: This invention carries a power cable from a floating power plant to a fixed connection from which the power cable can transmit to a distributing system on shore. The cable support distributes the bending of the cable over a length of cable so that no deterioration of the cable occurs as the result of successive bending and unbending with the tidal motion of the floating power plant. A jointed cover protects the cable support from exposure to the weather and from icing.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the generation of power wherein a fluid is circulated within a pressurizer wherein the fluid is pressurized by centrifugal action and then passed via nozzles to a toroidal shaped cavity for further pressurization. After passing through said circular shaped cavity, the fluid passes through nozzles oriented to discharge forward, in the direction of rotation, and then the fluid is passed through a reaction type turbine wheel with inward flow, to generate the power. Work is required to rotate the pressurizer, and work is obtained from the turbine, and the difference between the two amounts of work is the work output for the power generator. Heat is added to the working fluid of the power generator from external sources. Working fluid may be either a gas or a liquid. Normally, the working fluid is maintained within the power generator at an elevated pressure.

Abstract: Improvements in apparatus for converting one form of energy into another form with the use of an essentially closed, continuous loop passageway containing a plurality of freely movable, unrestrained bodies. Force generated by expansion of a gas is applied to successive bodies in one region of the passageway to propel them around the passageway in one direction. At another point in the passageway, at least a portion of the kinetic energy of the propelled bodies is converted into another form of energy. Each body, before being propelled around the passageway, enters a compressor section where it compresses the gas in the passageway, the compressed gas being bled off through a check valve where energy is added to it before it is used to propel a body around the passageway in the expander section which immediately follows the thrustor section.

Abstract: A system and method for destroying waste including garbage, organic trash and sewage in which the waste products are initially combined in an emulsifier, grinder, or shredder at the source such as a residential dwelling or business establishment and pumped through present sewage lines to a slurry tank. The basic system can also be utilized on marine, land and air vehicles. The enriched slurry mixture of waste is pumped into a reactor chamber where through an electrolitic reaction it causes the slurry to produce its own pressure achieving the by-products of high pressure steam to drive a turbine-driven electrical generator and sterilized water with only a residue of ash being produced. The by-product of electricity may be utilized for heating the slurry mixture in the reactor while providing electrical power for other uses. Excess condensate from the steam may then be collected and utilized as sterilized water.

Abstract: An illustrative system is disclosed for use as a rotary-drive engine, utilizing combustible fuel and a hydraulic system of energy conversion. An engine block defines a pair of expansion cylinders (combustion chambers) and an associated concentric pair of hydraulic chambers. The chambers matingly receive unitary piston structures for phase-opposed reciprocal movement.The hydraulic working chambers communicate with each other and can exhaust high pressure fluid through a control valve structure for drive power. Exhausted fluid is replaced in volume by low-pressure spent fluid. The body of the fluid contained in the hydraulic working chambers along with the piston means and springs connected to the engine block define an oscillatory system which is resonant at the operating frequency. That consideration, along with the absence of lateral loads on the pistons, results in relatively high efficiency.