At sea, the wind blows freely, strongly, and in a well-directed manner, which is why offshore wind farms are built.
The vessel is exposed to the wind and is therefore able to capture the wind and generate kinetic and electrical energy.
The wind turbine, patented for ships, has a high sensitivity to wind collection, which is why it produces energy even in light winds and breezes.
The wind ship generator is equipped with automatic protection, which protects it from excessively strong gusts of wind.
Sensitivity to low winds combined with the automatic system, which instantly activates and gradually protects the nautical wind generator from sudden, violent gusts, allows the wind generator to generate kinetic energy across a wide range of wind speeds, from low winds, as mentioned, to strong winds as well.
The patented wind turbines for ships produce kinetic energy, which is partly transformed into electrical energy by alternators.
The renewable energy produced by naval wind generators can power the ship in two ways:
1 - via electric motors, which drive the immersed propellers,
2 - mechanically, directly or through motion transmission organs, from wind generators to propellers.
In the second case, the wind-powered ship is propelled without the use of alternators and electric motors and therefore without the loss of energy, which inevitably occurs when energy is first transformed from kinetic to electrical using alternators and then transformed from electrical to kinetic using electric motors.
Electricity is also used for lighting and other services on board the wind ship, powered by wind energy.
The patented marine wind generators do not capture the apparent wind (which also depends on the movement of the ship), but exclusively the real wind.
When the wind ship is underway, the naval wind generators do not detect the head wind.
When the wind vessel is in port or anchored at the turn, the headwind is captured.
Under the same weather conditions, a wind-powered vessel captures the same amount of wind energy and transforms it into the same amount of kinetic energy, whether it is sailing or not.
Marine wind turbines are not the tiny turbines sometimes seen on boat masts; rather, they are wind generators formed, structured, and integrated into the structures of ships and vessels.
Among the wind vehicles, ships are the most specialized ones, for example, a merchant ship has different shapes and structures than those of a cruise ship, those of a yacht and those of an oil tanker.
The patented marine wind generators, featuring various power ratings, shapes, and sizes, can be integrated in different locations and on different types of ships.
Naval wind turbines are obviously powered by the wind, but they do not have protruding elements or blades and, therefore, their operation does not pose any danger either on board or around the ship.
For millennia, boats and ships were powered by the wind, and even today, fast pleasure craft are powered by the wind.
Marine wind turbines generate significant amounts of renewable energy, which can actually be used to propel ships.
On board, electric storage batteries store part of the electrical energy produced by the alternators.
A possible additional accumulator patented, on board the ship, it accumulates kinetic energy produced by naval wind turbines.
The stored energy, when needed, is then used on board for the ship's propulsion and for other uses.
If the wind vessel is also equipped with an internal combustion engine, a strategic diversification of propulsion energy sources is achieved.
When fuel supply for the internal combustion engine becomes difficult, expensive, or impossible, the energy produced by the nautical wind generator and the stored energy ensure the vessel's propulsion.
Wind generators and energy storage systems require modest investments for their construction and installation, have low production and maintenance costs, have no energy transport costs and do not produce pollution.
In relation to the strategic autonomy of a vessel, particularly a military one, wind propulsion is, to a certain extent, comparable to nuclear propulsion, compared to which it involves lower costs and fewer risks.
When the ship is moored, the naval wind power generation system is not only able to produce energy that can be stored on board the ship, but is also able to transfer electrical energy off the ship to other civilian and military users, at sea and also on land.