New Renewable Energy Device Proposed
A new ocean energy device developed by Tar Kovacs Systems is designed to transform offshore and shipping energy systems by harnessing ocean energy. The system developed by Stefan Tarkovacs, designer, founder and chairman, is the vision of a man who witnessed the Prestige oil disaster.
His conclusion: No technical means exist to prevent or to clean up such an accident. Tarkovac’s response was to develop a new clean energy system, and he claims to have interest from the likes of Saïpem, Ifremer, Onera, Cedre, Ecole Polytechnique, DCNS, Thales, Total, Schlumberger, Areva, the the French Navy and many others.
Tarkovac likens his invention to that of James Watt and the steam engine. “The concepts I have designed are made for the green and renewable era with more efficiency, more security and less cost than all state of the art to date.
“As with high pressure steam, my concepts are made of very simple and well known technologies like the fuel cell, optic fibre, pumps, computer, and so on, but the results are without competition.”
Applications include oil and gas, offshore and ship building, offshore operators, engine and propeller builders, offshore renewable energy production, wild fish farms and wild species preservation, ocean pollution cleanup and deep ocean clear water wells.
The system is free of pipelines, pumps and assistance ships, free of anchors or foundations and has ultra-long term autonomy and real time communication capabilities. It is capable of independent navigation, can dive without depth limits and is self-balancing.
“Whatever sea application is built following these concepts, it will be moving on or under ocean like the space lab in space.”
Tarkovaks explains: “Major industrialists are still working hard to build new versions of 19th century wind turbines to hang on seabed founded pylons or wave/tidal fixed plants. All of this is expensive, fragile with respect to extreme weather, needs high and expensive maintenance and is destroying the natural environment to provide intermittent power from a single kind of power source.”
Tar Kovacs Systems’ answer is to provide an offshore power plant in a floating structure capable of propelling itself to its work location and able to make use of wind, waves, deep temperature, sun, or currents at any distance off the coast. When it arrives at the working location, it dives to a depth of 15m. The upper part of the structure remains above the water to provide stability.
The power plant is like a ten floor building that is horseshoe shaped, says Tarkovacs. It is free of any anchors or foundations, saving 60 per cent on conventional offshore turbine costs and is capable of diving to avoid extreme weather such as tsunamis or cyclones.
Tarkovacs says he has signed an MoU with the Indian government in the State of Gujarat for a power plant capable of providing between 300 to 600MW.
Tar Kovacs Systems also has a new concept design a fish farm powered by the ocean.