Land-Based Sailing Power Plant: Geography of Use

Installations that convert kinetic wind energy into electricity have large dimensions due to the low air density. A variant of a sailing power plant is known that converts the energy of a wind stream into the energy of a water stream, which allows reducing the size of the energy converter, however, difficulties arise when transferring the generated electricity to an external consumer. A variant of a land-based sailing power plant is proposed, in which this problem is removed. In the course of laboratory research, structural elements were found that can be used in the implementation of a land-based sailing installation, a system for transmitting generated electricity along a contact rail was developed.eThe design features of land-based sailing power plants make it possible to expand the geographical area of use of wind power plants and to construct them in places where traditional-type installations cannot be used. The results of the study of the features of geographical areas where land-based sailing power plants can be used are presented in this article