Boat wind turbine

On the sea the wind blows, unhindered, strong and well directed, which is why offshore wind farms are installed.

The electrical energy produced by the wind turbines on the marine platforms is then sent to land and also used remotely.

The boat is always exposed to the wind, less in port and more in the open sea, it, like the platform, is therefore an excellent support on which to install nautical wind turbines.

Furthermore, the energy, produced by the wind turbines on the boat, is used on site without energy transportation costs.

Wind turbines installed on boats produce kinetic energy which, transformed into electrical energy via alternators, is used on board for lighting, for other services and to recharge electric storage batteries.

Currently, wind turbines installed on boats and ships are mainly derived from Savonius turbines. 

With all due respect to the historic invention, they produce little energy, are not very efficient from the point of view of energy transformation and are structurally weak when exposed to very strong winds.

Finally, they are moved by the apparent wind, of which one of the vector components depends on the movement of the vessel. This implies that to produce energy, Savonius generators on boats can consume part of the energy produced to push the boat in motion and this, from an energy point of view, is not convenient.

The boat can be found in roughly three conditions: on a navigation route, moored around the corner, moored with a fixed direction, for example in a port. 

The patented naval wind turbines work in the three situations described above and with any wind direction relative to the boat.

Due to the specific structural and functional characteristics of a vessel, more than one type of naval wind turbine can be integrated into it.

Wind generators can be integrated into any type of vessel, even sailing boats.

For millennia, man has used wind energy to navigate.

We are moved by observing the wonders that man has been able to create over the centuries to push boats and sailing ships into navigation.

The kinetic energy produced by wind generators, through motion transmission components, can drive both traditional propeller thrusters and innovative and silent, which push the boat into navigation.

This, without the transformation into electrical energy and without the use of alternators and electric motors and therefore without the loss of energy, which would occur if instead the energy were transformed, first from kinetic into electrical via alternators and subsequently, via motors, from electric to kinetic.

Wind generators for boats and ships are not ordinary wind turbines simply mounted on boats, they are nautical wind turbines specially designed to be integrated into the structures of ships and boats.

It is advisable that the design of nautical wind turbines takes place simultaneously with the design of the vessel to obtain optimal solutions from an aesthetic, structural and functional point of view for both the boat and the turbine.

3D files of wind turbines are available for their integration with vessel structures.

The blades of marine wind turbines are exposed to the wind, which pushes them into rotation, but they are made, arranged and protected in such a way that they cannot injure people or cause damage of any kind, neither on the boat nor around it.

The sails, which over the centuries were indispensable for pushing boats using wind energy, contributed to shaping the boats.

Nautical wind turbines will help characterize the structures and shapes of future boats driven by wind energy.