Manufar kamfanin Makani mai haruffa (Alphabet) Google a cikin 2014) zai ƙunshi aika manyan na'urori masu fasaha (jirar da aka haɗa) daruruwan mitoci zuwa sararin samaniya don samar da wutar lantarki ta hanyar amfani da iska. Godiya ga irin waɗannan fasahohin, har ma yana yiwuwa a samar da makamashin iska a kowane lokaci. Koyaya, fasahar da ake buƙata don aiwatar da wannan shirin gabaɗaya har yanzu tana kan haɓakawa.
Yawancin kamfanoni da masu bincike da suka sadaukar da kansu don ƙirƙirar fasahar makamashi a sararin samaniya sun hallara a wani taro a Glasgow, Scotland a makon da ya gabata. Sun gabatar da sakamakon bincike, gwaje-gwaje, gwaje-gwajen filin da ƙirar ƙira waɗanda ke kwatanta abubuwan da za a iya samu da kuma farashi na fasaha daban-daban waɗanda aka kwatanta a matsayin makamashin iska (AWE).
A watan Agusta, Alameda, Makani Technologies da ke California, ya gudanar da zanga-zangar nuna jiragensa na iskar iska, wanda kamfanin ya kira makamashin makamashi, a cikin Tekun Arewa, kimanin kilomita 10 daga gabar tekun Norway. A cewar babban jami’in gudanarwa na Makani Fort Felker, gwajin Tekun Arewa ya kunshi harbawa da saukar jirgin ne sai kuma gwajin jirgi inda katan ya tsaya a sama na tsawon sa’a guda cikin iska mai karfi. Wannan shi ne gwajin teku na farko na irin wadannan na'urorin samar da iska daga kamfanin. Koyaya, Makani yana tashi daga ketare nau'ikan kites masu ƙarfi a California da Hawaii.
"A cikin 2016, mun fara jigilar kites 600 kW a cikin iska - yanayin da ake samar da makamashi a cikin tsarinmu. Mun yi amfani da samfurin iri ɗaya don gwaji a Norway, "in ji Mista Felker. Idan aka kwatanta, kut ɗin wutar lantarki na biyu mafi ƙarfi da ake haɓakawa a yau yana iya samar da kilowatts 250. "Gidan gwajin mu a Hawaii an mayar da hankali ne kan ƙirƙirar tsarin wutar lantarki don ci gaba, aiki mai cin gashin kansa."
Gwajin Norwegian yana nuna fa'idodin AWE. Samfurin M26 na Makani mai tsayin mita 600, wanda aka gina shi a sashi tare da tallafi daga Royal Dutch Shell Plc, yana buƙatar tsayayyen buoy kawai don aiki. Injin iska na al'ada yana fuskantar manyan lodin iska akan manya-manyan ruwan wukake kuma dole ne a dasa shi a kan gine-ginen da ke kan bakin teku. Don haka, ruwan Tekun Arewa, inda zurfin ya kai mita 220, ba kawai dace da injin turbin gargajiya ba, wanda yawanci kawai ke aiki a cikin zurfin ƙasa da mita 50.
Kamar yadda jagoran fasaha na shirin Doug McLeod ya bayyana a AWEC2019, daruruwan miliyoyin mutane da ke zaune kusa da teku ba su da ruwa mara zurfi a kusa da haka kuma ba sa iya amfani da makamashin iska a bakin teku. "A halin yanzu babu wata fasaha da za ta iya amfani da makamashin iska a cikin wadannan wurare ta fuskar tattalin arziki," in ji Mista McLeod. "Tare da fasahar Makani, mun yi imanin cewa za a iya amfani da wannan albarkatun da ba a yi amfani da su ba."
Ya ce an yi amfani da jirgin saman M600 ne daga kayan dandali na mai da iskar gas, in ji shi. M600 wani jirgin sama ne mara matuki tare da rotors guda takwas wanda ke ɗaga jirgin zuwa sama daga tsaye a kan tudu. Da zarar kyandir ɗin ya kai tsayi - kebul ɗin a halin yanzu yana ƙaddamar da mita 500 - injinan suna kashewa kuma na'urorin sun zama ƙananan injin turbin iska.
AWEC2019 mai shiryawa kuma farfesa a fannin injiniyan sararin samaniya a Jami'ar Fasaha ta Delft da ke Netherlands, Roland Schmehl, ya ce rotors takwas, kowannensu yana samar da 80 kW, sun ba wa kamfanin damar ƙirƙirar wani tsari mai ban sha'awa wanda zai yi wahala ga sauran kamfanoni su doke. "Manufar ita ce a nuna amfanin yin shawagi a teku tare da irin wannan kite mai nauyin kilowatt 600," in ji shi. "Kuma girman tsarin yana da wahala ga yawancin kamfanoni masu farawa suyi tunanin."
Shugaban Makani Fort Felker ya lura cewa, makasudin gwajin jirage na watan Agusta a cikin Tekun Arewa ba shine samar da wutar da ke kusa da karfin samar da jiragen ba. Maimakon haka, kamfanin yana tattara bayanan da injiniyoyin Makani za su iya amfani da su a yanzu don gudanar da gwaje-gwaje da gwaje-gwaje yayin da suke ci gaba da haɓaka tsarin su.
"Jirgin sama da aka samu nasara sun tabbatar da cewa samfuran tashin mu, saukar mu da kuma tsallake-tsallake daga wani dandali mai iyo gaskiya ne," in ji shi. "Wannan yana nufin za mu iya yin amfani da ƙarfin gwiwa don amfani da kayan aikin mu na kwaikwaiyo don gwada canje-canjen tsarin-dubban sa'o'in jirgin da aka kwaikwayi za su lalata fasahar mu kafin kasuwanci."
source: 3dnews.ru