The Conversion of Ocean Wind Energy into Storable Energy: A Review of Current Developments
摘要
A brief review of the most recent developments of “energy ships” is presented. Energy ships are sailing ships equipped with hydrokinetic turbines to enable the conversion of the wind energy over the oceans into storable energy. This “energy ship concept” was first proposed in 2009 and a considerable number of analytical and computational studies have been conducted to evaluate its potential. However, only recently attempts were made to assess the fidelity of the predictions in sea trials. In this paper, these recent developments are described and summarized.