Patent ID: 8749086

Claim:
A deep-water power generation system, comprising: (a) an initially evacuated sphere having walls of suitable strength or reinforcement for maintaining the structural integrity thereof in deep-water pressures; (b) a power axle extending through said sphere from a north pole thereof to below a south pole of said sphere; (c) a multiplicity of blades of a turbine secured upon a support frame secured to said axle in a latitudinal plane of said sphere; (d) a plurality of inlet ports within said sphere positioned at said latitudinal plane of said blades of said turbine and defining a direction of inflow of ambient deep-water against said blades, in which energy from said fluid flow induces rotation of said blades, their said support frame and said power axle secured to said frame; (e) a thrust deck rigidly secured, within said sphere, to said power axle and above said turbine; (f) a generator secured upon said thrust deck, its axis of rotation defined by said power axle extending therethrough; and (g) a fluid power output of said sphere defined by an auger secured at a bottom end of said power axle proximally to said south pole of said sphere, said auger spirally expelling water from said south pole as said power axle is caused to rotate by said ambient deep water inflow against said blades of said turbine.