NL1040026A - Return and annihilation stormbreakers on habitable spaces. - Google Patents
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Description
Return and annihilation type stormbreakers on habitable spaces
Technical field
The invention is in the field of stormbreakers, as separate or integral parts of habitable spaces. The name “stormbreaker” is used to denote breakwater against water waves, like in coastal defense against tsunami or storm surge, as well as windbreaker against the storm winds.
Existing art and motivation
Patent application NL 1039528 [1] deals with breakwaters of the return and annihilation type against tsunami and storm waves for coastal defense. It is based on the consideration of the kinetic energy and momentum of the tsunami and storm waves as the guiding principle of the breakwater design. Although in [1] the emphasis is on breakwaters for water waves, especially tsunami waves, in the case of storms the breakwaters are not only used against the water waves generated by the storm winds, but also to block the winds up to the height of the breakwaters, acting as windbreakers, as mentioned in [1] p. 3 lines 30-34, p. 5 lines 9-13. Therefore the application of breakwater as windbreaker, in particular as an integral part of the building, for example as a balcony with sea sight, is already contained in [1], p. 5 lines 20-23. The contents of the present patent application are therefore already covered by the patent application [1].
Furthermore, with regard to the inventive aspect the breakwaters in the present patent application are the same as in [1], namely based on the same principle of kinetic energy and momentum consideration, for the return type to return the momentums and kinetic energies of water waves as well as wind waves and for the annihilation type to cause those momentums as well as the kinetic energies, to mutually annihilate each other, in both cases without impacting momentum and kinetic energy to the breakwaters. So there is also unity in inventive step with patent application [1].
However, despite this unity, we take for granted the remark in the search report to split off the present application from [1] and take the opportunity to elaborate on novel applications, using the breakwaters of the invention [1] also as windbreakers, to help solve some major problems, associated with climate change and sea level rise, endangering many island states in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, seasonal storms especially in the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, the Caribbean and east coast of the US, sinking coastal megacities, helping eradicate poverty and slumps around coastal megacities by creating ample habitable spaces on calm sea.
In the further description, instead of using the names breakwaters for water waves and wind breakers for wind waves, they will be called stormbreakers for both types of waves.
Description of the invention.
For ease of reference, the description of the breakwater of the invention [1], now called stormbreaker, will be quoted here literally, including Fig. 1: “The stormbreaker consists of a half cylinder (1) of length 1, smooth inner surface with the semi-circle radius R, and a smaller concentric hollow inner cylinder (2) with circle radius r, i.e. the inner cylinder is a tube of thickness dr, of length 1 and smooth outer surface, closed at both circular ends of the tube. The inner side of the half cylinder (1), the front side, is facing the incoming waves. The back side of the half cylinder can be cast as integral part of the supporting structure (3) or the half cylinder can be of certain thickness fixed to a supporting structure. In Fig. 1 a cross section perpendicular to the common cylinder axis is shown. It can be used as a return-type stormbreaker, with the cylinder axis horizontal and perpendicular to the incoming wave, returning the impulse moment (also called momentum), which is proportional to v, and kinetic energy, which is proportional to v2, of the incoming wave. Alternatively it can be used as an annihilation type stormbreaker, with the cylinder axis vertical, so that the inner cylinder acts as a bi-directional roundabout, dividing the tsunami or storm waves in two halves moving toward each other for a clash among themselves. Mutual collisions of the two halves annihilate their impulse moments as well as their kinetic energies” - end quote.
As mentioned in [1] p.3 lines 30-34 and p. 5 lines 9-11 the stormbreaker of the return or annihilation type not only block the water waves, but also the wind waves, for the height of the stormbreaker, thus acting also as windbreaker. As stated in [1] p. 2 lines 29-31, provisions for fixing are just examples of many alternatives, depending on configuration, placed fixed onshore or floating offshore and further practical situations. In this description the focus is on incorporating the stormbreakers as an integral part in the protection and creation of habitable spaces, whether placed separately from the buildings or integrated in the building design, for example the annihilation type stormbreaker as a balcony of each apartment in a condominium.
As mentioned in [1] p. 5 lines 19-23: In combination with an offshore stormbreaker to block the sea surge, the annihilation type stormbreaker, incorporated as sea side balcony, with the semi-cylinder length 1 = 3m, radius R = 3 m and inner cylinder radius r = 0.5 m, of a multi story apartment building, can serve as a stormbreaker to block the wind for the height of the building. Curved and plane reinforced glass plates are commercially available to integrate them in the design of such a storm wind annihilation type balcony, with sea sight. A 10 to 20 story building would block some 30-60 m height of the storm so that at street level and lower buildings behind the building with stormbreaker the situation can be as normal as without storm. Such stormbreaker buildings can also be at the perimeter of a city to protect the city from the storm.
In applications, habitable space or building means: any building for any socio-economic and cultural activity, cf. [1] p. 4 lines 17-19, including industrial structures (like oil drill platform) and real estate developments on land and on sea, creation of habitable space between offshore stormbreakers and the coast by using a pier or pontoon connection of the stormbreaker with the coast described in [1], which serves as an access road for the development of floating homes, even with floating gardens, and other constructions on the still water between the offshore stormbreaker and the coast, as depicted in Fig. 2, for example: (1) island, (2) ring dyke, (3) pier or pontoon, (4) home with garden, on floating caisson of reinforced concrete, also serving as storage for collected rain water, (5) stormbreakers according to [1] Fig. 4. When necessary, by adding a section, the pier or pontoon can be enlarged toward the sea to create more still water. The living territory of a coastal or island state can be enlarged in that way, thus creating habitable space on sea to accommodate the growing population. This technique is particularly useful for the island states in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean now suffering from high waves and threatened in their very existence by the climate change and sea level rise. To block the sea waves the island can be provided by offshore return or annihilation type stormbreakers, in parallel arrays as in [1] Fig. 4 allowing for free passage of ships. It is then easy to develop living space on the still water between the coast and the stormbreakers. It is possible to surround a whole island state with such expandable stormbreakers, thus expanding the living territory toward the sea. Coastal areas in Asia, the Caribbean islands and the east coast of America with frequent seasonal storms can be protected with the return and annihilation type stormbreakers to save many lives and multi billions of assets lost yearly by heavy storms.
Industrial application
With the return or annihilation type stormbreakers [1], for water and wind waves, separately or integrated on buildings, it is possible to protect and create habitable space on land and on sea. Especially in building integrated applications, for example as a balcony, the modules can be prefabricated and mass-produced in standard sizes. Creation of habitable spaces on sea will give ample room for floating homes using the roofs for photovoltaic solar energy production and rain water collection for self reliance and offers the flexibility for the family to move. With the stormbreakers many solutions are feasible for the problems associated with seasonal storms, sea level rise and sinking islands and to create living space for the growing world population.
Reference: [1] S. Emid, Breakwaters against tsunami and storm waves, patent application NL 1039528, date 2012-04-10
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