摘要 |
A wind-driven rotor drives a pump 3, which pumps liquid from a low pressure storage tank 9, into a gas-pressurised storage tank 5, (or tanks) which may be part of, or form, a tower supporting the wind-driven rotor. A valve 16, controls flow of liquid from the tank 5, to an hydraulic turbine, which drives an electric generator 11. The valve 16 may be controlled by a pressure monitoring device 17, and a demand measuring device 18, and a computer and communications equipment 20, may be provided. The wind-driven rotor may be a vertical axis device (figure 3) and the tank 5, may be separate from the tower supporting the wind-driven rotor (figure 2). |