Sentences with phrase «current turbine design»
«Novel ocean - current turbine design: Taming oceans for 24/7 power.»
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The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.
The OIST design is a hybrid of a kite and a wind turbine: an ocean - current turbine is anchored to seabed with a line and floats in the current while water rotates its three blades.
Because the turbines sit horizontally beneath the surface of the sea, they can be sited in water shallower than the 30 - metre depth typically required by current designs.
A British company has announced plans for an array of unique marine turbines that can operate in shallower and slower - moving water than current designs.
Even without detailed knowledge of wind turbine design, the intelligent reader should be slightly suspicious about the current pro-windmill exuberance in newspaper articles such as that by Michael Booth, 1/07/01 («Energy Solution: Blowin» in the Wind?
Most existing tidal currents devices have been based on horizontal axis propeller - type designs, much like wind turbines, mounted on fixed towers or on the sea - bed, sometimes with ducts to enhance the flow.