"Dams can cause negative impacts if they break". Bit of an understatement 😆
Being in S.W. Indiana local people have often wondered how come the river current has never been used. With this method would indeed be an excellent place to start. Multiple turbines at points along the river at different depths.
This sounds really good! Hydro is the way to go if you can and microhydro gets too little attention. I am glad to hear that the propeller is fish safe too!
Hydro power has been in use in Scotland for at least 50 years now, did no one know this. 99.9% of electricity in Scotland is by renewable energy and over 60% goes to England
These kinds of devices need to become standard for all towns and cities with free-flowing rivers running through them. It will take longer than people realise to get rid of fossil fuels but this kind of stuff is a no brainer
I heard about something like this years ago, im so glad its coming to fruition.
Really interesting, please keep covering such topics.
This has some really interesting possibilities for micro-pumped-hydro-energy storage. Also great video, well presented.
4th generation Oklahoma oil & gas business here... River hydro-turbines. Now that's an idea I can get behind.
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You deserve a lot more subscribers.
A topic to consider is that demand for electricity is not flat but typically is higher during daylight hours than at night. With a dam, the reservoir acts as storage and replaces the battery. Without a reservoir, the overall cost can be optimized by finding the right combination of solar, wind and hydro to reduce demand for expensive batteries. Search term "clean energy u-curve"
Just found the channel so happy to have found some quality content
Oh wow, a small dam! Who'd have thought?
This is the kind of turbine I've been waiting for since the 1970s, from a company that seems genuinely dedicated to distributed generation and serving small-community interests. Thanks, I've come to despair humanity will only work to greater and greater centralization with its consequent unavoidable defects. Sure, we need to develop and deploy the gigawatt and terawatt fusion systems everyone is spending untold billions- for the global-scale projects we will undertake. For the small to mid-szed communities, and even down to us individually, there needs to be power solutions that AREN'T staggeringly expensive and huge-footprint burdens on the planet and society.
Fantastic videos Very easy to follow because you are so knowledgeable Will keep watching
Really like your content! Thanks for all the time you take making these vids!
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