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Tidal Generation

2011 · 2015-01-08 22:20:52

I was shown a presentation and given a tour of Openhydro's facility in Greenore County Louth recently. They are working on a number of fascinating projects with their "open centre" bidirectional turbines (they generate power on both flowing and ebbing tides). This animation provides an overview of how their turbines are…

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#32 02-06-2016 8:11am
2011

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OpenHydro are very secretive, but they have just released this fascinating video of a recent project for EDF on YouTube. Much of this was filmed in the DCNS facility in the military port in Brest, France where they are normally pretty sensitive about the presence of cameras. The assembly process is a fantastic feat of engineering.

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