| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 239200100 | Of weather control or modification | 50 |
| 20090008468 | How to tame hurricanes and typhoons with available technology - The hard fact of physics is that water on the surface of the ocean will not evaporate by significant amounts after being treated with the introduction of ample amounts of liquid air. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090152370 | Chimney device and methods of using it to fight global warming, produce water precipitation and produce electricity - A method of cooling the Earth atmosphere along with inducing water precipitation and producing electricity by providing a super tall chimney 1000 m to 10000 m tall coupled with electric wind turbines, by allowing warm air to move up to chimney. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090206170 | Mitigation of rotating wind storms - A method for mitigating or preventing a major air disturbance comprising a fluid stream, preferably heated, adjacent to the earth's surface and orienting it upwardly in the vicinity or potential vicinity of a major air disturbance in order to in part move lower level air upwardly to cool the surface of the earth, including the sea. The displacement of atmospheric air by the upwardly directed stream diminishes the strength or potential strength of major air disturbances. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090272817 | Method and apparatus for reducing the intensity of hurricanes at sea by deep-water upwelling - Methods and apparatus for reducing the intensity of hurricanes are described herein. A method may include positioning a fleet of submersibles in an area of ocean through which at least a portion of a hurricane's central core will pass within a predetermined amount of time. The submersibles are maneuvered to a depth greater than a depth of a thermocline in this area of ocean. The submersibles maintain their station and depth for a finite amount of time, during which they may release a gas to form bubble plumes which rise toward the ocean's surface. The bubble plumes entrain and upwell cold sub-thermocline water toward the surface of the ocean to cool the surface of the ocean. The cooled ocean surface reduces the intensity of the hurricane whose portion of central core passes through the cooled area. An apparatus to generate a bubble plume may include a gas source, a gas manifold to releasably collect gas from the gas source, and a cover having perforations of a predetermined shape, size, and spacing to produce a predetermined rate of upwelling of seawater. The apparatus may further include a duct to receive at least a portion of the generated bubble plume and channel the cold upwelled seawater toward the surface of the ocean. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100001089 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROMOTING PRECIPITATION FROM MOISTURE-BEARING ATMOSPHERIC FORMATIONS - Methods and systems for promoting precipitation from moisture-bearing atmospheric formations are described. A composition comprising a precipitation stimulating material and a volatile liquid agent is located on an aircraft and subject to one or more aircraft-generated pressures during aspersion. A first pressure is a pressure for expelling the composition from the aircraft. A second pressure results from combination between air and aircraft velocity. A third pressure is an ascending pressure resulting from expelling the composition from the aircraft at a lift portion location of the aircraft where only a lift force is applied to the aircraft during flight. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100072296 | Method of Interrupting a Tornado - The invention describes and claims a method of interrupting a tornado. As the first step, an area of ongoing tornadic activity is located. Ultra-cold substance is then released at low altitudes in the area of ongoing tornadic activity. In preferred embodiments, the ultra-cold substance is delivered to the area of ongoing tornadic activity by an airplane. The ultra-cold substance is preferably liquid nitrogen. In alternative embodiments, detonation of explosives may be used in leu of or in conjunction with the use of the ultra-cold substance to interrupt a tornado. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100170958 | HURRICANE MITIGATION BY COMBINED SEEDING WITH CONDENSATION AND FREEZING NUCLEI - The invention provides method for treating a tropical cyclone, a tropical storm or a tropical depression. The method includes reducing unloading of cloud parcel water in the tropical cyclone, tropical storm or tropical depression. In a preferred embodiment, unloading of cloud parcel water is accomplished by seeding with cloud condensation nuclei, such as sub-micron ammonium sulfate particles. The treatment is preferably applied to the lower parts of peripheral clouds in the tropical cyclone, tropical storm or tropical depression below the 0 C isotherm level. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100224694 | METHOD FOR REDUCING OR CLAMING HURRICANES AND/OR OTHER STORMS AND FOR CIRCULATING WATER - A storm may be calmed by cooling the surface of a body of non-stagnant water when the storm passes over that body of water. Optionally, the water may be cooled by circulating the water to bring cool water up from below the surface to cool the surface water. Optionally, the wind of the storm may be used to provide power to drive a pump to circulate the water. Alternatively, a liquid in a container may be mixed by placing a wind-powered pump in the container and exposing the pump to wind. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100252647 | Benign global warming solution offers unprecedented economic prosperity - The present invention proposes a permanent and prosperous solution to both human global warming (˜0.26 to 0.74° F.) as well as natural global warming (˜7 to 9° F.). It simultan-eously employs all three of the physical laws to thermostatically regulate Earth: Macro solar energy reflection; sequestration of absorbed solar energy; and, enhanced infrared radiation from Earth. Temporal and spatial macro aerosol water evaporation is employed to triple-cool Earth's surface, by way of: 1. Low-altitude atmospheric and oceanic vapor-cooling and/or macro storage of artificial snow; 2. Automatic ascension of lightweight water vapors to high-altitudes for enhanced water-phase-change infrared radiation from Earth, and; 3. Increased cloud coverage to reflect more incoming solar energy. Deep subterranean, high temperature, high pressure, permanent sequestration of macro quantities of absorbed solar energy assists terrestrial surface-cooling, but also duals as retrievable long term solar-energy-storage to power macro evaporators—without requiring conventional fossil or nuclear sources. The present invention has other applications such as: 1. dramatically enhanced space-conditioning efficiency if combined with potable-water-patent U.S. Pat. No. 6,688,129 | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100264230 | Severe storm / hurricane modification method and apparatus - A method and apparatus for weakening a storm uses liquid or solid nitrogen. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing liquid nitrogen enclosed within at least one container, dropping the container into a storm, and dispersing the liquid nitrogen from the container starting at the top of the storm, whereby the nitrogen cools and therefore weakens the storm. In another embodiment, the method includes the steps of providing solid nitrogen pieces each sized to melt and evaporate in the time it takes to fall from the top of a storm along a major portion of the height of the storm and dropping the solid nitrogen pieces into a storm, whereby the melting and evaporating nitrogen cools and therefore weakens the storm. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100270389 | Method of dangerous phenomena (mainly, hurricane) and global warning weakening - The method of gradual weakening of moving hurricane which prevents to gain in maximum energy and some means useful at protection against hurricanes and global warming weakening are offered. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100308124 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A MASS OF WATER VAPOR, APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING, MOVING AND CLIMBING A MASS OF WATER VAPOR, AND METHOD OF CAUSING ARTIFICIAL STIMULATION OF RAIN - The apparatus for producing a mass of vapor water includes a water film maker floating on a surface of a water source, the water film maker | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110036919 | GLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION METHOD - The present invention provides a method of limiting sea level rise. In a first step heat that would otherwise cause thermal expansion of the ocean and resultant sea level rise is extracted to produce energy. The energy is used to convert a portion of the liquid ocean water to the gaseous elements hydrogen and oxygen by the process of electrolysis. The ocean level is reduced by the volume of water converted to gas. The hydrogen is captured for use as an energy source and is transported to a desert to be recombined with resident oxygen to produce energy and water for irrigation. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110049257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCAL MODIFICATION OF ATMOSPHERE - The invention concerns environmentally compatible methods and apparatuses for local modification of atmosphere, and in particular, for causing precipitation, dissipating fogs and/or clouds, removing air-pollutants in a target area. SUBSTANCE: the method involves applying air ionizers ( | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110079655 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DYNAMIC VIRTUAL SIPHONS - A method for producing elongated, rotating, dynamically controllable, cyclostrophically balanced, fluid virtual siphon columns, wherein: the term fluids covers any media capable of flow, including particulates; the fluid/s can be a single medium or a mixture of materials capable of flow; the fluid/s entrain such flow in themselves and/or other fluid/s preferably by means of initialising near axially-fed outwardly spinning, centrifugal, upward motion with coherent convection, thus creating largely self-sustaining, rising updraft, rotational, cyclostrophically balanced fluid virtual siphon columns of considerable length. Such columns can be made visible by means of condensed water, bubbles, smoke or particulate matter and may be illuminated for greater visual effect. Other uses for employing such controllable upwardly flowing fluid columns are explored. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110127346 | Co-creative Learning and Research Method and Apparatus - A method is claimed to provide experiential nonlocal real time interaction between or among a participant or participants, observer or observers, participant-observer or participant-observers, and phenomenon or phenomena by means of presentation of sensory information or semantic mapping, by direct observation or using sensory or semantic representation for example by imaging methods or technology including without limitation, image projection over a distance, e.g., by internet, television or telepathy, so arranged as to permit and facilitate rapid or real time ‘simultaneous’ or prescient attention to the phenomenon and interaction with it, so as to facilitate contemporaneous, or time-delay, or time-advance “feedback” active input to the phenomenon or the phenomenon presentation system, in some sense constituting thereby an entraining and entrained system being modulated by the attention and energetic or related state and interaction or resonance with the phenomenon, of the participant-observer(s), and furthermore their resonance or interaction, whether attentively or consciously intended or consciously or not, with one another and collectively. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110168797 | METHOD OF WEAKENING A HURRICANE - The present invention is directed to a method of weakening a hurricane. In one aspect of the invention, hurricane development is weakened by identifying pre-hurricane systems and inducing rainfall therein. In another aspect of the invention, a hurricane is weakened by disrupting the inner winds surrounding the hurricane's eye with a water-absorbent substance such as oatmeal. In another aspect of the invention, the hurricane is weakened by cooling the air in front of the hurricane system. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110174892 | APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION BY ELECTRICAL PROCESSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE - The present invention provides an apparatus for weather modification. The apparatus comprises an emitter electrode, means for providing the emitter electrode with an electric charge, electrically coupled to the emitter electrode, an insulating support for supporting the emitter electrode at a predetermined height, and means for earthing the apparatus. The emitter electrode comprises a Malter film. According to another aspect of the present invention an apparatus for weather modification is provided, which comprises a lighter-than-air craft suitable for carrying an emitter electrode, means for providing the emitter electrode with an electric charge, electrically coupled to the emitter electrode, and means for earthing the apparatus. According to still a further aspect of the present invention, a method of increasing the amount of precipitation in a target region is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing an emitter electrode, analyzing the meteorological situation in and/or close to the target region, and providing the emitter electrode with an electric charge in response to the meteorological analysis, thereby causing the emitter electrode to ionize the vicinity of the emitter electrode. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110198407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO BREAK UP OR ANNIHILATE TYPHOONS, TORNADOES, CYCLONES OR HURRICANES - This invention is about an efficient, but simple method and apparatus designed to break-up/annihilate disastrous natural phenomena, like typhoons, tornadoes, cyclones or hurricanes in the forming and deployment stages, on ground or on sea, by using a controlled implosion principle, which absorbs forced and fast air and water as displaced by typhoons, tornadoes, cyclones or hurricanes; the method and apparatus can be employed on sea, on ground or in the air. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110284649 | Apparatus and method for the mitigation of rotating wind storms - An apparatus and method for the mitigation of rotating wind storms. A preferred embodiment creates a rising column of warm air through the use of a heater combined with a fan or compressor. The rising column of warm air is created directly in the path of a naturally occurring rotating wind storm to help alleviate an atmospheric imbalance and to cool the surface of the Earth and the surrounding air which effectively robs the oncoming naturally occurring rotating wind storm of the warm air it needs to build strength. As a result, there is less energy available to facilitate the growth and destructive ability of the natural rotating wind storm where the Earth was cooled by the man-made column of warm air. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284650 | Method for Cooling the Troposphere - Self-initiated cooling of the troposphere occurs by enriching the same with at least one substance from the group of inorganic chloride and bromide compounds. The substances used to this end are characterized by at least one of the properties: -gaseous, -vaporous below 500° C., -hygroscopic, -hydrolysable. The formation of the substances used to this end is further characterized in the process in accordance with the invention by at least one of the steps: -forming the substance using salt water electrolysis, -forming the substance outside of combustion processes, -forming the substance in the free troposphere. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120024971 | METHODS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION WITH CLIMATE CONTROL MATERIALS AND COVERINGS - The invention provides and systems, materials, and methods for environmental modification using climate control materials. Climate control materials may be applied locally and may have various material properties that may alter a local albedo and/or evaporation rate, and thereby affect the local environment. Climate control materials may also be reversible. The climate control materials may be deployed in different manners. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120024972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CYCLONE INTENSITY - Apparatus for reducing intensity of a cyclone over water. The apparatus includes a body having buoyancy sufficient to float in a fluid and a conduit extending from the body into water to an inlet at a depth where the water has a temperature of at least forty degrees Fahrenheit below that of water at the surface. The apparatus includes a pump in fluid communication with the conduit for drawing water from the depth and a sprayer operatively connected to the pump for spraying droplets of water drawn from the depth into air above the water. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120175427 | Protection against natural dangers connected with huge streams mainly water, mud, locust - A method and system for protection against natural temperature-dependent dangerous phenomena connected with huge streams mainly water, mud, locust. The method allows weakening these streams and allows protecting against these dangers at least at of the first two stages of development of said phenomena: forming these masses and their moving, as far as possible. The method allows protecting ecology and increasing CO2 absorption. The system allows also transporting the electrical energy that is received from solar radiation with help of solar cells flying in stratosphere to ground-based reception stations. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120267444 | ARTIFICIAL FREEZING APPARATUS AND FREEZING METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention relates to an artificial freezing apparatus and a freezing method therefor. The present invention includes a supporter for vertically moving a water ice maker over and under the surface of water; and the water ice maker for producing an ice while being vertically moved by the supporter and to fall down thus-produced ice into the surface of water. In accordance with the present invention as described above, the present invention can separate some from the water and expose it to the atmosphere to naturally freeze the separated water and return thus-produced ice to the surface of water to thereby accelerate the freezing process on the surface and thus make some ice on the surface when it is difficult to ice, and creating various additional effects such as preventing global warming, preserving ecosystems and the like. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20130175352 | METHOD TO INFLUENCE THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF HURRICANES - In like manner that winds intersect and deflect each other in space we can intersect and deflect the hurricanes and storms at the area of thrusting between their steering winds and their outer edge, with blasting explosion waves of non-nuclear high-power propellant fuel missiles thrown in vertical perpendicular alignment, against the routing of the steering wind current at N equal number of levels, first for testing a 300 pounds missile thrown, by adequately equipped air-vehicles for missiles launching, to observe the effect on the hurricane configuration, then decide to adjust the explosive quantity to thrust successfully, all blasts of each round of missiles should be detonated in a timely manner, then continue the rounds of explosives at intervals approximately similar to the time required by the prior blast to travel twice the diameter of its explosion, repeating as necessary, hitting always at the thrusting area until achieving success. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20140048613 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATING DISSIPATION OF A LANDFALLING TROPICAL CYCLONE - Disclosed herein is a method and system for accelerated dissipation of a tropical cyclone and/or a hurricane specifically as it makes a landfall in order that its strength and access to further geography are significantly reduced in an irreversible manner. A storage tank and pipeline-based system for forcefully dispensing large amounts of cool dry air into the landfalling cyclone and/or hurricane system is the key embodiment proposed herein by which large scale dilution of the cyclone/hurricane fuel (vapor) is achieved. Other embodiments suggest augmenting this system with dry air drawn from adjoining arid or desert territories, and introduction of seeding materials or cloud condensation nuclei. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140145002 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CLOUD FORMATION AND CLOUD PRECIPITATION - A system for facilitating cloud formation and cloud precipitation includes a controller and a beam emitter that is responsive to the controller. The beam emitter is configured to emit a beam to form charged particles within an atmospheric zone containing water vapor. The charged particles enhance the formation of cloud condensation nuclei such that water vapor condenses on the cloud condensation nuclei forming cloud droplets. The system further includes a sensor configured to detect a cloud status and output a signal corresponding to the cloud status to the controller. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140353396 | AUTOMATED WIDE-RANGING ANTI-HAIL PROTECTION METHOD AND A NETWORK - The present invention relates to hail warning and prevention. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150090805 | Methods and Apparatus for Destabilizing Tornadoes - Methods and apparatus for destabilizing and reducing the strength and even destroying tornadoes are disclosed. Rather than over-powering a tornado, tornado vulnerabilities in stability maintenance are identified and turned against the tornado. Embodiments include attacking tornado vulnerabilities chemically without the use of explosives. Selected chemicals are introduced into a tornado adjacent to the wall of the funnel, advantageously above the height of entrained debris, to reduce the transmission of local angular velocity of the funnel toward the earth and to attack the local generation of energy from the tornado's air/water mixture. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150296721 | Methods and Apparatus for Affecting an Atmospheric Cyclone - Methods and apparatus for affecting atmospheric cyclones and quantifying parameters related to affected cyclones are disclosed. These methods and apparatus involve attacking a cyclone chemically, without the use of explosives, with an energy transfer inhibitor that can interfere with the transmission of energy from the sea surface to the cyclone. The energy transfer inhibitor, if properly chosen and placed in a desired path of the storm, can deny one part of the storm energy from the latent heat of vaporization of water, thereby creating an imbalance in the centrifugal force of the cyclone. The imbalance can reduce the intensity of the cyclone and can be used to steer the storm. Quantifying parameters associated with an affected cyclone enables forecasting the cyclone's energy state, path, intensity, or other related parameters and evaluating possible additional energy transfer inhibitor distribution. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150327448 | Method and Device of Weakening Tornado - The field of this invention is tornado disaster. This invention proposes a method of weakening tornado, the contents are as follows: A. provide Provide plenty of non-fixed turbolators called free turbolators; B. Provide plenty of turbolators fixed on free ropes, called free turbolator strings; C. Provide plenty of turbolators fixed on ropes installed on storage boxes at lease in one spot, called swinging turbolator strings; D. Install free turbolators, free turbolator strings and swinging turbolator strings, in order to reduce energy of tornado cyclone. On the other hand, this invention also proposes a device for weakening tornado based on the above method, the contents are as follows: there are free turbolators, free turbolator strings and swinging turbolator strings which are installed in proper areas. This invention is for reducing tornado energy, and even interrupting tornado. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20160106045 | METHOD OF PREVENTING SERIOUS WEATHER DISASTERS - A method for preventing serious weather disasters includes steps of: (A) finding an area, where cloud layers which are thick are gathered, by a conventional meteorological technology; (B) defining an artificial rain position with a highest density, thickness or temperature in the cloud layers; and (C) setting one or more artificial rain bands with a strip shape at the artificial rain position, and providing artificial rain, in such a manner that clouds to which the artificial rain are provided is cooled to rain; temperatures, densities and measurements of the cloud layers are lowered; and hot air below the cloud layers is released; wherein the clouds after being cooled flow to and cool hot clouds nearby, so as to rain one after another, thus eliminating natural conditions for forming the serious weather disasters. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160165813 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INDUCING RAINFALL | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160183480 | Invention to Interrupt, Dissolve or Destroy a Tornado - The function of this invention is to build a Tornadoes' Destroyer Center to dissolve, or to destroy the tornadoes during their formation stage, or during their projection toward the earth, before they reach the earth and before they start their destructive and violent whirling movements. The technology to use will be the commercial fumigation aircraft, the drones (non-piloted aircrafts), or any type of piloted, or non-piloted aircraft, equipped or adapted to in form of spray, to launch “strong streams of hot water,” or, if it would be necessary, these above mentioned aircrafts could be adapted to launch streams of extinguishment substances. The above mentioned specially equipped aircrafts will launch strong streams of hot water, or streams of extinguishment substances against the weakest point where be possible to reach the projection's cone of a detected tornado. Once the above mentioned strong streams of hot water, or streams of extinguishment substances, reach and permeate the projection's cone of a tornado, it instantaneously will be dissolved, or destroyed. Therefore, this tornado will not cause damages on the earth, because through this effective system, during the tornado's projection toward the earth they will be fully eliminated. | 06-30-2016 |
| 239200200 | Snowmaking | 15 |
| 20090014549 | PROCESSES AND MEANS FOR REDUCING THE INTENSITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES - A navigable vessel for use in reducing the intensity of a tropical cyclone having an eye located over an ocean comprises a plurality of artificial snow-making devices aboard the vessel, at least one pump coupled to the devices and accessible to a body of water in which the vessel is floating for supplying the devices with water for making artificial snow, and a power source coupled to the devices to operate the devices in concert for producing a substantially uninterrupted supply of artificial snow. The artificial snow-making devices have discharge nozzles oriented to project the artificial snow away from the vessel onto or above the water adjacent the vessel. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090032608 | SNOWMAKING APPARATUS - A snowmaking apparatus having a housing having an inlet and an outlet through with fluid is propelled into which liquid droplets and ice crystals are injected to form artificial snow is disclosed. The liquid droplets and ice crystals are injected into the propelled fluid by a structure disposed within the housing proximate the outlet. The snowmaking apparatus also includes an outer ring system that injects additional liquid droplets into the propelled fluid at an inclined angle around the housing outlet. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090114735 | SNOWMAKING METHODS - A method and apparatus for producing artificial snow is provided. The method and apparatus include controls and operating parameters for given ambient conditions to assure that fluid droplets are at equilibrium temperature before mixing with ice nuclei to produce artificial snow. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090294547 | SNOW MAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A snow making apparatus that allows for the production of snow when the outdoor air temperature is from about −3° Celsius or colder to about +5° Celsius. The snow making apparatus includes a snow machine that includes one or more water nozzles that spray a water mist into the air. The snow making apparatus also includes a snow accelerator that includes an air compressor, a dehumidifier to remove moisture from the compressed air and a cooling system to cool the compressed dehumidified air. The cooled air is passed through an expansion valve and the modified compressed air is directed through a nozzle positioned to lie near the water nozzles. The modified compressed air has a absolute humidity of about 0.02 g/m | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100051714 | PROCESSES AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE INTENSITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES - A procedure for moderating the intensity of a hurricane in regions of the seas that are host to the oil and gas industries is described, using the Gulf of Mexico as an example of such a region, and snow-making machines as the instruments for carrying out the procedure. These machines are carried on moving platforms that follow the hurricane and on fixed platforms that are located in the path of the hurricane. In the described procedure snow-making machines are installed on fixed platforms throughout the region, and only those machines that are in the path of an approaching hurricane are turned on, while the snow-making machines on the moving platform(s) are operating continually. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110049258 | Arrangement, Use of an Arrangement, Device, Snow Lance and Method for Producing Ice Nuclei and Artificial Snow - A nucleator nozzle ( | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110163175 | COMPACT HEAT PUMP USING WATER AS REFRIGERANT - According to the present invention there is provided a compact heat pump using water as refrigerant, comprising an evaporator located at a first end section of the heat pump casing, adapted to allow evaporation of water therefrom, One or more compressors located at a second end section of the heat pump casing adapted to induce said evaporation by maintaining vacuum, provided with an intake conduit extending from the evaporator to the compressor leading vapor thereto. A condenser is located in the intermediate section of the casing wherein the intake conduit passes therethrough, adapted for condensing the vapor. The heat pump also comprises vacuum means allowing creating and maintaining vacuum in the casing. There is also provided a snow dome allowing skiing and snow related activities in above zero conditions using the heat pump for creation of snow or ice slurry. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120138700 | PROCESSES AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE INTENSITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES - A navigable vessel for use in reducing the intensity of a tropical cyclone having an eye located over an ocean comprises a plurality of artificial snow-making devices aboard the vessel, at least one pump coupled to the devices and accessible to a body of water in which the vessel is floating for supplying the devices with water for making artificial snow, and a power source coupled to the devices to operate the devices in concert for producing a substantially uninterrupted supply of artificial snow. The artificial snow-making devices have discharge nozzles oriented to project the artificial snow away from the vessel onto or above the water adjacent the vessel. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120153033 | ICE BUILDING MACHINE - An ice building machine for spraying a fluid comprising water to form ice is described. The machine comprises: a chassis; a power generating source connected with the chassis; a control module electrically connected with the power generating source; and a fluid spray system coupled with the chassis and arranged to spray a fluid under control of the control module and powered by the power generating source, the fluid spray system arranged to access the fluid from below a lower surface of the ice building machine. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120175428 | VALVE FOR DISPENSING WATER AND AIR IN INSTALLATIONS THAT SPRAY WATER UNDER PRESSURE - A valve for dispensing water and air in installations for spraying water under pressure, includes: firstly, a body ( | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120193440 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING SNOW - A method for producing substantially dendritic snow includes: a) supplying a flow of humid air ( | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130043322 | PROCESSES AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE INTENSITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES - A procedure for moderating the intensity of a hurricane in regions of the seas that are host to the oil and gas industries is described, using the Gulf of Mexico as an example of such a region, and snow-making machines as the instruments for carrying out the procedure. These machines are carried on moving platforms that follow the hurricane and on fixed platforms that are located in the path of the hurricane. In the described procedure snow-making machines are installed on fixed platforms throughout the region, and only those machines that are in the path of an approaching hurricane are turned on, while the snow-making machines on the moving platform(s) are operating continually. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130056546 | Snow making tower and method of making snow - A snow making tower pipe comprised of multiple aluminum pipe segments of different diameters dimensioned whereby the segments are telescopically fitted and welded end to end with the segment of larger diameter at the lower end, and the end to end weld fittings are angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the tower pipe at an angle of less than 90 degrees to provide a maximum strength weld connection. The snow making tower ejects air and water under pressure through snow making nozzles to form an atomized plume of water in adjacent ambient atmosphere under sub-freezing conditions. Water is ejected under pressure from a projection nozzle in the form of a spray stream at a velocity greater than the ejection velocity of the plume and this water stream is directed to engage the plume and thereby project the plume outwardly farther than possible without the assistance of the spray stream. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20150053785 | DEVICE FOR PRODUCING ARTIFICIAL SNOW, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ARTIFICIAL SNOW - A device for producing artificial snow includes: elements ( | 02-26-2015 |
| 20160040920 | SNOW MAKING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A snow making system, suitable for making man-made snow for ski-runs or ski-slopes, uses a snow making machine, where ice is converted into snow-like particles and directed in an upwardly-directed stream, into which a spray or mist of water droplets is introduced. The snow-like particles operate as nucleating agents for the water droplets to convert the droplets into flakes of snow. | 02-11-2016 |
