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Don't know much about this topic but salt water is corrosive and underwater repair is incredibly expensive. 100 kW is about 0.01% of the output of a modern nucl
by bjourne 4y ago
Don't know much about this topic but salt water is corrosive and underwater repair is incredibly expensive. 100 kW is about 0.01% of the output of a modern nuclear reactor so the installation probably has to be a few orders of magnitudes larger for the project to be economically feasible.
- angstrom 4y agoVerdant Energy has been using the New York’s East river to test their design since 2012 with multiple iterations. They’ve demonstrated a triangular configuration with 100kwh production tested. They predict the configuration can do 1,050kwh. Not sure how many they would install, but the East river has a very strong tidal current. The original test turbines were damaged by the current. The gen5 were undamaged. https://www.verdantpower.com/projects https://www.verdantpower.com/projects NREL makes the blades https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/articles/milestone-tidal-energy-verdant-power-successfully-retrieves-test-turbine-after https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/articles/milestone-tidal-e...