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World’s most powerful tidal turbine: Orbital 02
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Engineering firm Orbital Marine Power has delivered its first O2 tidal turbine to Scotland’s Orkney Islands, where it will connect to the grid and supply power to thousands of homes.
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Wonder how long it’ll take to break even regarding the energy produced to make it as well as the material cost. Ocean water is harsh on materials, hope it’s resilient
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Wait for the “environmentalists” to complain: “But turtles and fish will be hurt”.
No mention of the cost per k/w hour. Another worthless part of the green scam.
Promising renewable energy source with global application
Seems like they could have added several more pairs of turbines to increase generating output
It remains too expensive for the moment. In the future, we’ll see..
sure hope those anchors and cables dangling down don’t come loose and flow with the tides right into the turbine prop…
I think that this is a brilliant new element in renewable energy generation. 👌👌👌👏👏👏👏
This engineering marvel generates 2 Mw which is equivalent to 3 wind turbines operating with the standard 33% capacity factor. This factor takes into account the variability of wind power. This thing would surely cost at least 100 times what 3 of your typical wind turbines cost to build. As he said, any maintenance will cost 100 times what land based work costs. I don’t see the economics ever making sense.
Projects put the end to the fallacy that nuclear power is the only replacement for fossil fuels. While not a silver bullet, the array of renewable energies available certainly are.
has there been any research done into the impact it would have on marine life?
Go nuke
Yes the climate is changing. You will notice that we will have a very cold winter that will last late into spring.
Retrofit cargo ships to be used as battery recharging ships.
Congratulations on the project!
Tell me what in installed cost of the Scottish system? What is the cost of an O2 FOB dockside?
This hunk of junk is a total joke, actually admitting that it only Powers 2,000 homes?? That’s like 1 billionth of a percent of the power needs of our world, do some quick math.. in order to power a million homes which is still a pathetically small percentage of our electrical needs.. you would need 500 of these stupid contraptions.. but you’re not just powering a million homes!! You’re using a ton of energy to produce these and install them, and you’re disrupting the water they are placed in.. only an idiot would think that 500 of these things wouldn’t cause some sort of disruption to the habitat and the marine life dependent on it.. but hey maybe they’re magnetic, because they surely attract lots of stupid people 👎
mantap bossku…
How come every one here in comment,on a tech that might help or support clean energy( even in a marginal %), complain and talk in doubts regarding the impact on environment. yet hardly talk about the impact of tech and smart media devices , which are getting updated on months bases and leave much damage to environment.(English is not my first language)
They ought to put one of these waaaaay off shore in the Bay of Fundy. Fifty foot tides, that’s eight fathoms. It’s where tide waves and tidal waves rather blur.
Wow! Pretty awesome.
Is it possible to fit a wind turbine on top.
Great work Scotland, Keep on giving your best Thank you.
A bridge from Scotland to Ireland with Marine turbines along structure could provide good energy. Electric trains could operate, powered by the marine turbines.
Great beautiful idea and design. One big serious question about this particular design.…What types and how much lubricant is used in this device and how often is the oil change???
Nice
Power 2000 homes WOW how many will Britain need?
Good modern technology
I’m from the Scottish highlands and the fact we have so many massive wind turbines and only very little in the way of tidal power is sad. Where I live is next to the Isle of Skye and there’s a channel between it and the mainland where the tides race so very fast and strong….perfect! Anyway, it’s great to see the O2 do it’s thing and I hope to see many more around the world soon.
While neat, and good to see actual ventures into harnessing tidal/wave energy, the issue with this and other ‘green’ power generation like solar and wind is consistency. Industry needs consistent, reliable power. You cant just run your arc furnace when the tide rolls in. However, coupled with SMR technology, a manufacturing plant or district can have a fleet of small modular reactors feeding the sites when they need lots of juice right now, then spool down as the tides, winds, and sun come out. And can be utilized to also feed the grid when the wind and waters and still and its either dark or stormy. The only issue with nuclear energy is too much of it in one place. Gigawatt single vessel reactors are a logistical problem. But smaller few tens to hundreds mega watt units can easily self shutdown, self cool (for days without coolant flow), and the rest of the fleet can take up the load of the unit that dropped out. We need every roof with solar, especially warehouses, malls, any large structure (also shading the roof and HVAC units will keep the structure cooler and allow the HVAC phase exchange cycle to run more efficiently), we need wind power, we need hydro. What we dont need is to fear nuclear, particularly in small easy to control systems. Otherwise when the wind stops blowing and the water is still its back to coal which puts out more radiation in its soot than nuclear energy has…ever. Yes, including the accidents.
Sidenote: why only 2 arms? Surely they can fit at least another nacelle on there. Or two, one set of arms fore and aft of the vessel. Also, could they somehow ride the turbulent flow off of one set of blades with the down stream set? Im no hydrodynamicist, but its an interesting thought.….
I really think tidal power has to be partof the mix. We can rely on it for as long as we’ll ever need it.
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Not only is it as big as a 747, it even LOOKS like a 747 (slightly). Wonderful job harnessing the power of the waves.