Sunday, 1st June 2008
Maltese energy invention wins international award
The Spiteri Water Pump, a fuel-free, electricity-generating machine, walked away with the national prize during an awards ceremony held at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Developed by Joe Spiteri Sargent, the machine operates under a water surface and harnesses latent hydrostatic energy naturally present in a body of water, transferring it to produce an artificial waterfall to produce electricity via a hydro-electric power system. Present for the 2007 Energy Globe Award ceremony were Mr Spiteri Sargent and hydrologist Marco Cremona, who was also involved in the project.
A total of 853 project submissions were made from 109 countries, falling under five categories: earth, fire, air, water and youth. The Malta project was submitted in the fire category. A working prototype has been constructed in Malta and worldwide patents have been filed.
According to Mr Spiteri Sargent, the main benefits of this innovative product are that it has very low running costs and operates without the use of consumables.
Furthermore, it can be placed in any water body in the world and produces energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are no emissions from this energy transfer process.
The winners were selected by a panel including members from the UN Industrial Development Organisation, the World Bank and the European Renewable Energy Council. The awards were an initiative by engineer and environmentalist Wolfang Newmann Wolfgang Newmann.
The awards have been dished out annually since 1999 to recognise projects that 'make careful and economical use of resources and employ sources'.
For the second year in a row, the ceremony was held at the Plenary Hall of the European Parliament in Brussels. A number of high-profile personalities were present including EP President Hans-Gert Pottering, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as well as former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as honorary guest.
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This is already developed details at www.renewableenergypumps.com
3. Wave Water Pump - WWP:
Lifts a small quantity of water to a high head and feed it to a hydro-turbo generator to produce power, or compressed air to feed another turbo generator and act as a WAP. A set of pumps or a set of wind turbines, up to ten and a mile wide or as needed may be installed in line with the incoming waves or wind to extract most of its energy. The proposed systems can generate dependable electric power at competitive cost.
The WAP may be installed in the supporting structure of Off-Shore wind turbines.
In layman's terms, I suppose Mr. Spiteri Sargent found that hydrostatic pressure is greater than the pull of gravity on a particular mass of water. So he uses it to 'lift the water', allowing it to fall onto a conventional waterfall.
I stand to be corrected of course, not having seen any diagrams.
This is not a perpetual machine.It 'utilises' hydrostatic energy.
I have seen the theory behind this and it works.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-decisionmaking/p-challenge/p-challenge-decision-results/p-challenge-decision-results-bl?BL_Number=O/086/08
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-decisionmaking/p-challenge/p-challenge-decision-results/p-challenge-decision-results-bl?BL_Number=O/134/08
For further examples of such machines see http://www.kilty.com/pmotion.htm
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?ia=IB2007%2F002097&IA=IB2007%2F002097&DISPLAY=DESC
1.Low Running costs
2.can meet demands of electricity for Malta
3.Its a product of a Maltese
4.We're supposed to be Smart Island. Lets start acting one.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/business/view/20071220/news/water-pressure-energy-transfer