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Do you need an estuary? Can't you just divert river water, put it next to salt water, and then you can produce power? In fact, the only place "estuary" is used
by asdfman123 7y ago
Do you need an estuary? Can't you just divert river water, put it next to salt water, and then you can produce power?
In fact, the only place "estuary" is used in the article is in the image caption, and I assume they used it because it's tangentially related and it's a pretty picture. Really you just need a pool of salt water and a pool of freshwater, and those two things are easy to get where rivers flow to the sea.
- aaronblohowiak 7y ago> those two things are easy to get where rivers flow to the sea. Isn’t that an estuary?
- asdfman123 7y ago"An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea" I think of an estuary as that partially enclosed area, which is neither the river or the sea. But really all you need are those two things: the freshwater river, and the saltwater sea.
- riffraff 7y agoI think where "estuary" was used the correct term might have been "mouth", i.e. a river gets to the sea through a delta or estuary mouth. I am not confident enough with English to be sure though.
- ChuckMcM 7y agoAny river would work. An interesting application for LA or the Bay area