THE very promising Oryon Watermill! Or not?

Hereby I would like to inform you about a very interesting technique of extracting energy from water flows as rivers, but also tidal energy near the oceans coasts. The technique is called the "Oryon Watermill". It is recently developed by Deepwater-Energy, a small company in the netherlands.

This company already got a lot of requests from all over the world. Noticeable examples are Suriname and Ghana where the technique can be applied in isolated areas to provide electricity to the local population. Some important advantages of the technique are: - Suitable as location energy source - Very attractive because of the very low costs for material, production and maintainance costs. This and more information can be found on their website: http://www.deepwater-energy.com/en Here you can also find a movie which gives a good overview of the technique. The testphase is nearly completed and the results are more-than-promising! Please have a look at the disclosed document and tell me your opinion. What do you think of this technique? And are you convinced of this technique? Or why not?

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1. Hello Boris, I will try to explain it clearly and shortly. The generator on top of the watermill is connected via a cable with a controlunit on the (river) bank. This controlunit does two things. First of all it transforms the generated electrical energy to the right voltage (220 V) and frequenties of 50 or 60 Hz. It can also balance the voltage in a way that it can serve as a local energy source. An accu is not necessary since water is a constant energy source. Does this anwser your question?

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   1. Hello Wilbert, Indeed, I must have missed the cable... Thank you for having explained these technical details. I hope that your project will soon be proven efficient. Wish you lots of success !

2. Thank you Boris. At the moment they are still in the preparation phase, although this phase is almost completed. I think this company has a big potential, so we will see how it develops in the future. On the right of the screen at "latest documents" you find the leaflet. I just tried the website again and with me it does not show any problems... Please let me know if problems still appear. And your feedback is very much appreciated!

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   1. By the way, is there a special model developped for waterfalls?

   2. Hello Wilbert, The website works today. Again, the concept of harvesting the natural energy produced by water flows seems great. Combined with other power ressources, it could help many countries to progressively reach independence. I think I understand how the device works but I cannot see how you actually transfer the electrical power from the watermills to some battery for example.

3. The concept sounds very promising though ! Is this company recruiting?

4. I am afraid the website does not work anymore...

5. Very interesting Wilbert, thank you very much for sharing this exciting information. I will send you a feedback.