As suggested here, installing turbines into large city pipes that transport water via the flow of gravity is a solid idea underneath the broad heading of hydrokinetics. Of course, there are caveats:
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Wave Energy Concept
The video below presents a device to capture energy in ocean waves that consists of a tube under the water, open at both ends, and using the water that oscillates back and forth inside the tube to drive a turbine.
Hydroelectricity for the Home
One comes across lots of videos like this that sugarcoat the process of generating energy for the home.
Run-of-River Hydrokinetics
It’s sad to see that run-of-river hydro hasn’t taken off, since it’s such an elegant way to extract the kinetic energy from moving water; such an approach has very little impact to aquatic life, and raises few other environmental concerns.
2GreenEnergy: Keeping It Honest and Straight
To clarify matters, I thought I’d respond to two recent comments from attack-dog MarcoPolo, who writes: It would be more honest if would admit your pecuniary relationship with the technologies you write about. and
Concept in Wave Energy
I just received a note from a reader, asking me to check out his concept in wave energy. As a prelude, he offered the video below, which examines the validity of the overall concept of extracting energy from the motion …
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Waterlily Turbine Charges the Cellphones of the True Morons Out There
I don’t think I know anyone stupid enough to pay $160 for a device that requires a gushing stream or a stiff, steady breeze (and the time to position it properly) to do the job performed by a $25 piece …
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Concept in Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s a video depicting one of variations on the theme of extracting energy from ocean waves. Though I’ve seen countless numbers, I haven’t studied each of the variants thoroughly, so it’s only a guess when I say that this seems …
Renewable Energy Comes to Nepal–But It’s Not the Variety You’d Imagine
We’ve all had the experience of reading something from a reliable source and wondering how it could possibly be true. Here’s an article from the Asian Development Bank that heralds the electrification of a village in Nepal with wind and solar.
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If Hydrokinetics Is Going To Work, It Won’t Look Like This
Like wind turbines, devices intended to extract kinetic energy out of moving water are limited in their generation capacity by their “swept area,” i.e. the area of the imaginary circle made by tips of the blades.
