Briza Technologies Hovering Wind Turbine Offers the Most Effective Solution to Eliminating The Issues of Bird Killing and Visual Pollution

Briza Technologies Hovering Wind Turbines are easy to install and can be mass produced, offering the quickest and most cost effective solution to the issues of bird killing and visual pollution, presently caused by tower based propeller wind turbines.

Hillsborough, NJ January 10, 2005 -- http://www.hovering-wind-turbine.com [Briza Technologies, Inc.], a wholly private owned Corporation based in Hillsborough, NJ, developing innovative products and services for the domestic and international markets, wireless payment systems, data capture/management, Internet security, and renewable energy technologies, has recently introduced The Hovering Wind Turbines to produce energy cheaper than fossil fuels: non-polluting, renewable, and without global warming.

Wind turbines are being praised for helping reduce emission of green house gasses by power plants running on fossil fuels. Nevertheless, environmentalists are caught in the middle of a controversy concerning accidental killing of birds due to wind turbines being in the low altitude flight paths of these birds and visual pollution caused by tower mounted wind turbines.

Sooner or later the Wind Power Industry will have to reevaluate its total commitment to the tower mounted wind turbine concept and start looking at a more efficient, cost effective, and environmentally safer solution to wind harvesting the Briza Technologies Hovering Wing Turbine.

The Hovering Wind Turbines are easy to install and can be mass produced, offering the quickest and most cost effective solution to the issues of bird killing and visual pollution presently caused by tower based propeller wind turbines.

Since the HWT does not require a tower, it can be affordably deployed at higher altitudes above the birds flight path and into stronger wind, which is even better to produce energy. Achieving this objective with tower mounted wind turbines is extremely costly and time consuming.

Another cause of death by propeller-driven tower based wind turbines to predatory birds is the fact that small animals take refuge at the base towers of these turbines. Because the towers bases offer a good place for these rodents to nest, they rapidly multiply and attract birds attempting to feed. Many of these birds, in turn, end up tragically killed by the turbines blades. HWT eliminates this problem for the simple fact that it requires no support towers for its wind turbines, therefore avoiding creating shelter for these small animals.

There has been strong and very influential opposition to a large offshore wind power project in the United States and many other places in the world. The wind power opposition main request is that the turbines be deployed further away offshore due to esthetic problems, but the wind power developers argue that the projects are not cost effective when deployed in offshore deeper waters.

Hovering Wind Turbines represent the ideal solution for this issue, since it can be affordably and effectively deployed further away offshore at deep waters; while remaining esthetically pleasing in the horizon, far enough from shore proprieties.

In this way, it is also particularly attractive applying HWT offshore in deep-water sites for the production of hydrogen fuel. Multiple large arrays of HWT can be affordably anchored to the ocean floor to generate multi-megawatts, and hydrogen can be locally produced and collected in a platform through a network of underwater pipes. For example, the platform can then be regularly visited by hydrogen transporting vessels to upload its hydrogen cargo and ship it to large power consuming centers.

Application of the HWT technology also offers an economically attractive way for oil companies to transition to the hydrogen-based economy. Areas over international seawaters that are rich in wind energy may be explored for the production of hydrogen, and will rapidly become an important source of energy for many industrialized nations that cannot rely on a regular supply of affordable, clean energy.

Briza completed this past week filing for an international patent application for the Hovering Wind Turbine (HWT) via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), extending its patent portfolio proprietary protection to over one hundred and twenty four countries around the world. The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) has revolutionized the way patent protection is sought in countries around the world. We feel acquiring extra worldwide patent protection through PCT allows us to expedite the deployment of projects based on our technology anywhere in the world, finance this and other projects, through close coordination with Briza's New York investment bankers... said Mr. Silva, President and CEO of Briza Technologies.

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