Hydraulic turbine To be installed on ocean floors
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Hopefully it doesn’t become an aquatic gravesite.
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Dolphin meat everywhere... pause. Choppa style
That place will be full of sharks , underwater sharknado
The planet is flat.
Might work. They'd have to figure out the size of the mesh though. Debris could clog it up if too small.
Screens or mesh would cut the productivity of the turbine by a large margin due to the interruption in momentum. I'm pretty sure the have something in place, but with what was shown, it just looks like something Captain Planet would start set trippin on.
That would be hella inefficient
so screens in front of fans make them that inefficient?
what about fans bruh?
Screens are still going to chum up small fish. All of this is dependent on where in the water column this is placed.
I personally have killed hundreds of fish, jellyfish etc with my ROV. We have screens on the thrusters sometimes but we still blend em up.
I personally have killed hundreds of fish, jellyfish etc with my ROV. We have screens on the thrusters sometimes but we still blend em up.
Anything influenced by water current would be susceptible to interaction with turbine or a fan-type system. The end game is sound, but "so far" it looks environmentally irresponsible.
Just imagine the growth in shark and scavenger population..sheesh.
They already do this and there is no environmental damage. Been doing it at least a decade.
There are places in the ocean with incredible currents and very small amounts of marine life. The problem would be transferring the energy to the beach. You'd need a safe way to bump up the voltage to transmit it. We ramp up the voltage on our systems to 3100VAC for the motors and 1300 for the electronics just to go 3000 meters/10000 feet. That's less than 2 miles. Imagine a platform 10-20 miles offshore?