A Canadian company has designed a water turbine which can harvest energy in slow moving water.
“Waterotor” can work in currents as slow as 2 mph which means it could be used in almost any river, canal, or ocean current.
The company believe that “Waterotor” could be the solution for many of the world’s 1.3 billion people that live without electricity.
You can make enquiries with the company via their website regarding cost and shipping.
Produced by Leon Siciliano
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 8:30 am
The company believe that “Waterotor” could be the solution for many of the world’s 1.3 billion people that live without electricity.
Excellent, send me one.
Where can I buy the river?
Sissyfuss on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 10:16 am
Install it in your toilet, Cloggnosis. That’s gotta be your favorite room in the hovel at your age.
rockman on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 11:03 am
Sissy – “That’s gotta be your favorite room in the hovel at your age.” Well, that’s rude, buddy. But funny…thanks. And now Cloggie should print your post and send you a response next time he potties. And similar to a response a writer once sent to a critic. Went something like this: “I’m currently in the smallest room in my home and reading your review of my work. Very soon your review will be behind me”. LOL.
rockman on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 11:05 am
And like most reports about the latest magical cure for our energy predicament: not DOCUMENTED economic analysis.
Sissyfuss on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 2:01 pm
Rock, Clogmosis”identified” me as a lowlife. That makes me a rude, crude, alluding dude.
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 2:42 pm
Rock, Clogmosis”identified” me as a lowlife. That makes me a rude, crude, alluding dude.
Ohlala, Sissy is butt hurt.
I called you a lowlife because you mocked the Japanese and their Fukushima disaster:
http://peakoil.com/enviroment/radiation-levels-cause-robot-failures-to-mount-at-power-plant
Time to reincarnate the Kamikaze spirit in the hearts of nuclear industry personnel. For Emperor and Empire! Oh, wait. They’re just a conglomeration of old farts and sexless young adults. Well do it on the chance that you might get lucky before your thingy falls off.
What are you now?
Hawkcreek on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 3:25 pm
You can have output at 2 mph, but what is the wattage of the output?
In hydro you usually figure the wattage to be proportional to the head times the GPM of flow.
A slow stream with very little head won’t give very much power. If you could put one of these across the entire Mississippi river or equal, yeah, then you might have something.
Their website doesn’t seem to work for me.
I think this is BS.
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 3:30 pm
Their slick web site majestically lacks any data whatsoever, other than that 2 mph non-information:
http://waterotor.com/
Their site is slow (2 mph), but works.
Sissyfuss on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 4:42 pm
I’ll mock anybody in overshoot,Schizoclog. Especially hubristic fools that build reactors in an earthquake zone. But then again, their culture embraces hari-kari so that probably was the underlying thesis behind most of their techno evolution.
rockman on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 6:19 pm
So Sissy is a “low life”. Well, let me be the first to welcome you to the club. You should be receiving your “LL” pin in the mail soon. Wear it proudly, amigo.
And Cloggie: since I’m also president of the Cloggnosis Society I’ll add you to our news letter distribution. This month the lead article is “Wind power: one good blow job just isn’t enough”.
rockman on Tue, 4th Apr 2017 6:23 pm
Hawk – Probably is BS. Unless the found some magical gear system to turn a little bit of torque into a lot of rpm. Maybe just one step closer to that elusive perpetual motion machine. LOL.
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Apr 2017 4:23 am
I’ll mock anybody in overshoot,Schizoclog. Especially hubristic fools that build reactors in an earthquake zone.
The site was designed by General Electric. The US now nuked Japan three times. How about mocking sloppy affirmative action American engineers for a change?
“Wind power: one good blow job just isn’t enough”
Our schedule is 2050. That’s a lot of accumulated blow jobs:
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/04/scotland-sets-massive-new-wind-power-record-march-136-households-needs/
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/04/eu-renewable-energy-share-continues-increase/
Don’t worry about us (not that you do). We’ll get there. I think the pace will be increased to 2035-2040 for Western Europe. Countries like Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Holland will have the job (90% carbon free) done by 2030.