A clean, innovative way to generate electricity from a river!

submitted by JasonCarswell from twitter.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

If everyone can own a personal vehicle then there's absolutely no reason why the shores of any other riverfront cannot be lined with these devices - and have them on anchored barges too. The potential of Windsor/Detroit is astounding, sharing the same water flow as Niagara Falls, but without the maximum centralized control of that maximum power.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

lined with these devices

Just to play devil's advocate, that would look ugly. Also not sure if slowing the river down will have an impact.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just to play devil's advocate, that would look ugly. Also not sure if slowing the river down will have an impact.

It could look ugly or they could do something about it, from creating aesthetically pleasing industrial designs to covering them up to hiding them inside other things to changing the axis to redirecting some of the river's current to any number of things.

Yes, like wind turbines, for maximum effectiveness you'd want to space them out accordingly.