This factory ship should be a combination of a submarin and tanker with on wave level a open area and above a hollow platform for habbor connections.  In and around the open space different kinds of wave converters.

In March 2008, I asked an EU body for support with further development but this found no resonance.
From March to May 2009 I made with Autocad Inventor some 3D designs (not completed).

In November 2009 - after a meeting - I received an extensive email from innovation engineer Elke De Rijck (now VLIAO consultant) with advice and a lot of useful links and references to institutes active in domains of interest.

Many other ideas and career opportunities interfered, but the concept of Seanergy.be as a fleet for open ocean matured further due to my analysis that the Pelamis Wave Power - although I admire the clever idea - would not succeed, that prediction came true in 2017.  That was an indirect endorsement of my approach.

In April 2022, I received a response from VLAIO to my announcement of an extension on the 2006-2009 idea with autonomous satellites (Sea.wiggle.R) to produce H2 which can then be tapped by the factory ship.

In mid-2023, all parts fit together (transferring motion, generating electrical potential, filtering seawater, electrolysis, storing gas) in a "light weight form" able to produce continously and should survive rough seas.

A factory ship plus a satellite fleet of gas producing WECs will both operate in an international authorised area in open ocean. The factory ship(s) taps the gases from the WECs and relocate multiple units to a starting point.

= Factory ship (OCeanSpHide.R) + fleet of autonomous free-floating WEC's (Sea-wiggle.R) + distribution on land.

• Factory ships equipped with installations for tapping gazes from and maintaining the Sea-wiggle.R's and with chemical plants using CCS or DAC to synthesize hydrocarbons or NH3 or CH3OH.
• Sea-wiggle.R =  Wave Energy Converter + E-Power Generator (B.C-induce.R) + Sea water Electrolyser (B.F-electrolyze.R) + Gas storage barrels + auxiliary (ex-pumps, filter, cleaner, stabilizer, propulsion, geotagging), and comprising feature enabling automomous navigation only to avoid damage.

The land side: Harbor facilities

• Harbor installation and storage and distribution of gas and liquid, ev. charged batteries.

The irregularity of ocean waves dictate a none 'end-of-run linear' or a none '360° rotation' generator for electrical potential.

• Therefore I conceived the B.C-indude.R. that can accept irregular motions.

The organic load of seawater requires filters that must be cleaned.

• Therefore I conceived the B.R-electrolyze.R with a cleaning facilities without electric motor.

The salinity of seawater requires purification on a robust way.

• Therefore I conceived a Brine-Barrie.R that should separate the salt ions from H⁺.

The environmental and decentralized conditions demand for stand-alone operational capability.

• Therefore I conceived an electrode and bath design to accelerate bubble release applying physical laws.

After the mechanisation, sytems can integrates with existing loading, storage and distribution infrastructure.

Most designers of WEC try to resist the forces of nature.

• The Sea.wiggle.R also undergoes excess energy from waves but uses it to increase relative motion.
• This creates other risks, but they are manageable with some proposals made in the design chapter.

In order to master the navigation some systems with a view on minimal energy consumption, are proposed.

Imbalance between supply and demand is due to the fact that wind turbines, solar panels and anchored WEC's and tidal installation are site specific and their output depends on the frequency of suitable input.

The use of buffers is necessary but they can only absorb imbalance temporarily.

1. relocating to areas that are more optimal when extended periods of calm seas are forcasted,
2. the Sea-wiggle.R is conceptually designed to be adaptable to different wave profiles. 

Profitability depends most on productivity over 365/365 and 24/24.

The phasing of which processes need to be electrified first is extremely important, otherwise CO2 emissions will not decrease, but will saturate the atmosphere more.

On the other hand, in the long term, climate engineering will regulate the CO2 emissions necessary for biomass production to replace natural processes due to the decreasing vegetation on the earth's surface.

The only two criterion for choosing between combinations of full electrification and plug-in hybrids is the delta CO2 emission over the entire branched manufacturing plus construction chain but also the seizure of materials in a global context.

This means not only choosing emission-poor processes, but also scheduling avoidable demolition of infrastructure and engines before end of their lifespan, this is not climate friendly.

I have tried to construct an indicator for this (see HEATT plus examples)

Pluspoints of plug-in hyrid mobility:

1. Range extender with Wankel engine to load the battery and an electric-motor for propulsion will save on rare materials.
2. The time difference between refill or reload will always represent an economic cost if inside the active periods of the day;
3. Liquid fuels have a higher energy density and can be distrubuted and stored in many ways which save on e-grid expansion without demolition;
4. Full electrification requires more buffers and spare PV, windmills - if in batteries or in green hydrogen than more rare material and dito mining are needed;

Pluspoints of hybrid home heating:

1. In a hybrid home heating system, a heat pump would be assisted by either direct electric heating or a central gas boiler. The first option stays with the same energy carrier and is not redundant and also requires that system to be reinforced.
2. In the second option the supplementary heating with gas made from real green hydrogen and CCS has the advantage of re-engaging the present  distribution systems. On the other hand, CO2 emissions at this level are quite difficult to capture.

Questions and drawbacks:

1. The question may be asked if how the CO2 emissions and uptake from the second option compare to those from forest fires in previous centuries and from plantations controlled uprooted for timber.
2. A question is if heat pumps installations in their total life cycle chain are only CO2 neutral only when mining and blast furnaces are electrified.
3. Their are more considerations to make: Heat pumps for extracting from colder regions require more material, seals and fluida that could work at polar temperatures.
4. I fear that strengthening the e-grid plus additional electricity generation will make heat pump technology either too costly for the benefits.

Pluspoints of hybrid community facilities:

1. A community service station with fast chargers, with a buffer for renewable energy from the neightbourhood and some Wankel motors with generator so that the e-grid is not congested.
2. The emissions from these internal combustions on (circular) (e-)fuels can be captured better in a fixed installation.

A question about this mechanism, is to what extent does tapping sunlight and changing shape and location of hard surfaces, thus their energy content, affects ecological cycles driven by warming and cooling ?

And perhaps the deceleration of lower laminar air flows due to off-shore wind farms should be investigated, and whether rainfall in the lowlands and hinterlands after a mountain range is unevenly distributed as a result.

• The Seanergy.be proposal will boost the development of chemical CO2 capture and conversion techniques.  These 'recovering' will end in circular CO2 or GHG management by an international body.
• The fine chemicals sector will also benefit from H2 and O2 and CO2 for the production of high-quality molecules.  The availability of 'deep blue' H2 will give a boost to the development of green chemistry.
• However, the fastest gains will be made by introducing e-fuels based on 'deep blue' hydrogen and circular CO2 because huge amounts will be immobilized in stocks.

1. We must be aware that the controlled energy demand in a circular economy will be much higher than in an economy based on extraction, distillation and landfill for waste disposal. This because of the energy required to turn waste into a reusable state of its components.
2. And in the case of a ban on earth-made hydrocarbons, we must be aware that the energy required to synthesise complex molecules may be higher than distillation, and that synsthesis is an equilibrium process that leaves a percentage of unusable fractions.

Decarbonization in circular e-fuels is primarily an efficiency gain, because hybrid systems combine the optimal operating points of internal combustion engines for charging a battery with an electric motor for propulsion and in the meantime huge amounts of CO₂ are immobilized in stocks.

Challenges and eventual drawbacks are outweighed by climate benefits like climate-friendly continuation of existing distribution infrastructure with e-fuels and by CO₂-neutral smoothing of irregular yield from wind, solar by powerplant on liquid / gasous circular HC's as they can be stored, transported and burned in multiple ways and facilities.

While actual solar and wind renewable resources also have a nature conservation function (photosynthesis or mixing) that cannot be reduced without consequences.

More mining causes a reduction in biodiversity due to polluting extraction methodes.

• I do not believe that military assets, whether offensive, defensive, logistical or support, can be powered by batteries alone.
• Liquid fuels are best suited for conflict emergencies and to relief urgent and remote needs such as floods and earthquakes.
• E-fuels are indispensability in the event in hard-to-reach and inaccessible terrain (mountains, forests, snow), where recharging or provision of spare battery(s) is almost impossible and takes (too) long.

The floating units are not a target due to their number and small size, the variability of the ocean waves makes them difficult to hit.

About the MTTR/R: Accessibility of wind farms to restore or to replace is a main factor in recovery.

A big advantage for job distribution is that the size of a Sea-wiggle.R also allows to be assembled deeper in the hinterland and then transported to docks.

The implementation implies that certain R&D will have to accelerate and that rapid deployment requires strong guidance and commitment from many at multiple political and industrial levels.

1. A configuration that can hold mechanical stress;
2. An electric motor, generators and a control unit;
3. A transmission and blocking mechanism.

• The stored energy can be hold for a long time without significant loss;
• Both loading and unloading can happen simultaneously;
• Charging, discharging may be irregular;
• Charging can be done from different sources and by multiple means;
• A long service life or high number of cycles without significant loss of capacity;
• Remains operational (even full capacity) at standstill only with easy maintenance;

• The high density variant is meant for grid integration and requires a special construction;
• The medium variant is meant for local applications such as hospitals, city district, apartment buildings;
• The lower density variant is meant for mobile applications rescue or road assistance (no individual cars);

• A vast grid but this is at the expense of reduced overall technical efficiency and financial returns;
• A centralised and / or decentralised buffer capacity but that must be overspecified;
• A rapidly deployable production capacity but this option has full overhead cost in dead-time;

• The tension depends on the converting generator and not on the electrolyte couple - like fuel-cells, Lithium-ion, flow-batteries.  So either 230 V or 400 V can be delivered.
• When transported on a truck, the unit can immediately be used as plug-and-play, regardless of whether the terrain was bumpy along the way. (which is not the case with flow battery systems);
• It is to my expectation that all variants will have a very long livetime as it can be produced as a 'back-box'.

1. Damage does not cause an additional risk such as Lithium batteries that can then ignite or as a fuel cell with flammable H2;
2. The control system do not stop operations if some parts of the assembly are damaged, while Lithium batteries, will stop completely.

Not only geometry was shaped but also material features which came available in the years around 2000 in universities in Ghent and abroad. These features have an promoting effect.

A complex spherical configuration ensures that all physical laws involved in evaporation / condensation will, in this geometry and with defined material featues, interact in a mutually promoting manner to achieve their maximum effect.

• This new configuration is stand-alone and requires very few electric drives and mechanical moving parts except for overcoming height differences and preceding filtering. This entails that maintenance is easy and thus an asset for remote areas.
• Drinking water and agricultural water can be tapped along the pipeline. Salt mining can be carried out at regular intervals.
• Moreover, additional energy can be supplied to Sol-d'eau.R in any regime and in any quantity along the pipeline even after installation. This fexibility is an advantage for growing habitation nearby.
• Broad applicability is possible because simulation is expected to yield multiple optimal relationships between configuration elements, as described in the patent application.

RO is a technique that creates high pressure to counteract spontaneous osmosis at atmospheric pressure. While Sol-d'eau.R is a 'model' that creates conditions that bring together all spontaneous physical equilibria within normal atmospheric conditions.

In both cases, energy is used to overcome physico-chemical potentials. For Sol-d'eau.R the molecular attraction among H2O and some ions that must be delivered to provoke evaporation.

But, for that matter, the advantage of Sol-d'eau.R is that the heat of evaporation is recovered by condensation and is reused to the maximum extend. Moreover this model can accept rest energy of different types.

The internal configuration can be optimised with a multi-physic modelling. COMSOL is powerful mathematical software tool used for simultaneous simulation of different aspects of a physical system and the interactions among physics phenomena.

Such a modeling simulates also the yield. In this case it should solve mass and energy balance equations in the multi-effect evaporation-condensation cycles with flow dynamics.

ANOVA can eventually be used to identify the factors that make the greatest contribution in the whole of the Sol-d'eau.R design as there is an absolute non-obvious factor in the design.

Such applications in various sizes and configurations will also have a positive effect on the micro-climate in a city.