Engineers design underwater turbine technology that could revolutionize what we know about tidal energy: 'Building the foundation of a research ...
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Two doctoral candidates partnered to create an underwater turbine to track tidal energy.
According to CleanTechnica, University of New Hampshire students Parviz Sedigh and Mason Bichanich had never seen their work implemented underwater. They did it through a partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in addition to funding from the Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office.
They used the NREL's Modular Ocean Data Acquisition setup, enabling their turbine to collect data on tidal energy. The clean energy source could power up to 21 million homes in the United States. Since the country can't harness all that power, some will be reserved for water occupants such as fishers and boaters.
The turbine is the size of a harbor seal and will not just collect data but also help power a drawbridge. It will support community education through UNH's Living Bridge Project and be placed under the Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth.
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- Tidal Energy
- Wave & Tidal Energy
- Wave & Tidal Energy