Say goodbye to 'oil' and 'solar' power.
A deep sea turbine off the coast of eastern Japan has proven capable of producing almost as much energy as a coal plant.
Kairyu, a massive turbine prototype produced by Japanese machinery manufacturer IHI Corp, sits at least 100 feet underwater.
Its anchor line allows it to flex its position to most effectively harness energy from the Kuroshio Current—one of the strongest ocean currents in the world.
The machine sends all generated energy up a series of cables for use on the country’s power grid.
A deep sea turbine off the coast of eastern Japan has proven capable of producing almost as much energy as a coal plant.
Kairyu, a massive turbine prototype produced by Japanese machinery manufacturer IHI Corp, sits at least 100 feet underwater. Its anchor line allows it to flex its position to most effectively harness energy from the Kuroshio Current—one of the strongest ocean currents in the world.
At first glance, Kairyu looks like an underwater jet. Its middle consists of a 66-foot fuselage, each side of which has a similarly-sized turbine cylinder attached. Both turbine cylinders contain power generators, control mechanisms, and measuring systems which correspond with their respective 36-foot turbine blades. The machine sends all generated energy up a series of cables for use on the country’s power grid.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/337086-japan-successfully-produces-electricity-with-kairyu-deep-sea-turbine
I've always been interested in ocean power. Hope it's real and is effective
removing waves from the ocean means we'll eventually have no waves or tides
You wat m8
if we keep harvesting the waves for electricity then the waves will eventually stop due to the law of conservation of energy
bro its gravity. You cant diminish cosmic forces by running your toaster.
But what if you could...?
Why do you think big waves have been doing preemptive strikes on Japan lately? I would expect another one as soon as this thing goes0wt2s underwater.
Why are aussies so fucking brain dead?
He is not, this will affect the natural currents that move cold water. This will be more destructive than coal if its implemented in regions with a strong underwater current
exactly. have you noticed how much less windy the world has gotten since we started building all these wind turbines?
Based Aussie shitposter.
>XDYR2
What's Kairyuu? Tell me about Nedo.
Hopefully it doesn't fall apart when it comes time to do maintenance or replace parts. It's promising, but we'll have to see how it handles wear and tear.
>Hopefully it doesn't fall apart when it comes time to do maintenance or replace parts. It's promising, but we'll have to see how it handles wear and tear.
Well, plenty of us have seen wind turbines burn up, and they don’t have to deal with corrosive salt water, trash in the water, barnacles, etc.
I’d like to see it work, but I’m skeptical.
They didn't tell you about how they plan to harvest even more whales with this thing. Trust me, the japs will keep it running.
Only thing that salt water doesn't guck up is gish
Shame Godzilla will probably destroy it
Good point. Hope they have been developing their mecha simultaneously.
Why do you think life size gundams have been built in Japan
RIP fish
>glun glub gl -ACK
This
Globohomo will never allow this to take off
Hydro electric dams are a proven effective source of electricity and they are taking them down all over the US
Russia already almost have next gen plants working on nuclear wastes
Almost?
Russia have 2 sodium cooled fast neutron reactors already. They're bringing up a lead cooled one in a couple of years.
What happens to it when there's a big ol' earthquake and sea shift I wonder
I don't think they actually sit on the sea floor.
I've heard of this. The japs also plan on creating giant underwater cities. No I'm not joking though who knows if the project will actually go anywhere.
I heard they are making cities in the sky.
This is stupid. This will slow down and alter the oceans currents. Leading to catastrophic ocean biome changes that will be planet ending.
The ocean is huge. You would have to make a fucking ton of these to have any noticeable effect.
it's certainly foolish to think it won't have impact.
Earth isn't a perpetuum mobile.
Same applies to geothermic energy.
Nuclear radiation is better for the environment than all alternatives, as Chernobyl has proven. The abandoned region is now full of life.
>The abandoned region is now full of life.
It's a strange life for sure, but it's a life!
Because no people live there.
>windfarms will alter the natural wind cycles!!
Said no one ever
Stop being am alarmist homosexual, this will be fine
Shark hubs with all the chud blending behind it
I recommend off the coast of Africa near highly populated black demographics
And start coming the rigs and the sharks
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>its position to most effectively harness energy from the Kuroshio Current—one of the strongest ocean currents in the world
I'm sure that slowing down oceanic currents won't impact the planet as a whole in the slightest, just like wind turbines and partially reflective solar panels didn't. And I'm also sure that this is solution for everyone.
These would work connected to pumped storage in the Bay of Fundy. Has the strongest tides in the world.
Nip boffins never fail to amaze. 出かした
Won't it genocide fish that uses currents for migration?
Sounds dangerous to the underwater people and maybe the fishies.
>Japan deep sea turbine
That's a Ukrainian turbine.
fuck space, invest in sea exploration, n-words cant swim
a shame the inventors and entire company that made em is about to die by 5 shots to the back of the head by suicice or vanish or go bankrubt or be caught with clear pedo evidence and its assets sold for pennies to the (((benevolent))) energy industry and then memoryholed into never happening 🙂
>a massive turbine prototype
>at least 100 feet underwater
>almost as much energy as coal
wow...
Meanwhile, the people who watch me personally waste their lives making cars go "honk" at me. Smart people who could be accomplishing something, I'm sure.
>...IHI aims to generate power at 20 yen per kilowatt-hour from large-scale deployment. That compares with about 17 yen for solar in the country and about 12-16 yen for offshore wind...
Very cool good job nips
N-Nippon-sama... I kneel!
That's pretty cool. Russians had some similar project, but...
>russia
>Russians had some similar project
I hope it will stay being "project". Mobile and miniaturized nuclear reactors, and eventual fusion reactor is the future.
>The tests proved the prototype could generate the expected 100 kilowatts of stable power and the company now plans to scale up to a full 2 megawatt system that could be in commercial operation in the 2030s or later.
Woah this sounds like an actual solution to energy problems and not a pyramid scheme.
You won't hear about this in a month. Everyone will forget about it. Shekelberg needs those profits from retards replacing solar panels every 2 years.
Finally someone is actually harnessing the oceans current to generate electricity and unlike shitty wind and solar you can generate all year round. Bravo nips
The weight is overestimated.
Pic related is 150 tons aka the weight of an adult blue whale.
It will not effect ocean currents unless thousands are place near the same area.
>In Europe, the development of tidal flow power generation has been making progress and reached the commercialization phase. Meanwhile, Japan is located near the Kuroshio, one of the world’s most powerful ocean currents, and one estimate states that if the energy present in the Kuroshio could be harnessed, it would amount to approximately 205 GW, which is comparable to Japan’s total electric power generation.
Who is going to maintain it, how will the grid handle it being shut down. How do natural phenomena affect it. I maintain coal power plants and and shit needs to be shut down every other year for a month for basic maintenance. I can imagine the nightmare of trying to maintain or repair these fucking things with such a specialized workforce that'll need to not only tradesman but master divers and underwater specialists.
There's already a shortage of power plant workers and construction workers let alone introing something as crazy as this. Lefties I swear don't think about anything when it comes to logistics. All they see is
>This new tech will fix everything
>Costs infinity more than current tech and obscenely complicated.
>The mean flow speed of the Kuroshio is said to be 1 - 2 m/s (approximately 2 - 4 knots). Its flow speed varies depending on the water depth; in other words, water near the sea surface flows faster. Given this, an ocean current generator, installed near the sea surface, will be capable of generating power more efficiently. Nevertheless, waves caused by a typhoon might have a height of 20 m or more, and a higher level of safety is therefore required to install an ocean current generator near the sea surface. In consideration of this issue, we adopted the floating type ocean current generator, which is moored at a depth of around 50 m below sea level.
>Kairyu was completed in July, 2017, and an open sea power generation demonstration was conducted in the Kuroshio off the coast of Kuchinoshima Island (Toshima Village, Kagoshima Prefecture) in August, 2017. In the demonstration experiment, we validated the floating type ocean current turbine in terms of workability and the power-generating performance and attitude control in the actual Kuroshio environment
>As an approach to the commercialization of this technology, a floating type ocean current turbine capable of stably generating power is highly expected to serve as a low-cost energy source for remote islands, where
power generation is forced to rely on internal-combustion power generators because it is difficult to receive electric power from the main islands of Japan via power cables.
>extract energy from the ocean
how much energy is there to extract?
Kyuden Mirai straight up uses a different aproach
>Say goodbye to 'oil'
Uh oh, here comes every conservative to sperg the fuck out if they can't give their time and labor to an oil company because freedom.
This is a more conventional Euro design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=173&v=7tzksqO5XB8&feature=emb_logo
This is the Q&A from the same project:
Lastly the americans
>California-based tidal energy developer Aquantis has signed a six-month berth agreement to test its Tidal Power Tug at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland
https://vimeo.com/175255303?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=53640478
Let's disrupt ocean currents and see what happens.
How many fish does it kill?