There is another cutting-edge technogical project off the north coast in Scotland, Power companies had at least 10 sides on the sea bed to turn the wave and tide energy into electricity.
Such a cool idea. They aim to power 750 thousand homes by 2020, David Shockman, of the BBC, check it out.
Inch by inch, a new source of power is taking shape, the size of a submarine.. Here's at the Dock Side in the Leeds near Edinburgh. This vast machine will make electricity from the waves. Nearby,lie amount of coal. It's coal that powerd the industrial revolution. Could sea power ever do the same?
This components is now being lowered into the sea, Its operation will have to be repeated thousands of times, as the starts, what is being described as a the new era of harnessing the power of the sea. This system captures the swell, each wave passing the along the cylinders, move the hinges that connect them, and that motion drive the generators.
Near the assembly haul, I was given the chance to see inside, down through the hedge.
Just like being inside a submarine. It's one section stretches through the gloom 34 meters. Out of the sea, there will be no one in here. The whole thing, rocking with the waves.
And Here, at the end of this giant cylinder, is where they actually generate the power. Let me show you how that's done. Every time the wave passes along this system, the cylinders move where they're hinged. They release huge hedonic pumps, like bicycle pumps. And that, capture the energy of the waves is channeled into a generator like this and ends up producing the electricity.
But what happens if there aren't any waves?
This thing could be unuseful for flat day? On a flat day, we won't producting any power. That's right. But the important thing is the contribution on average of the year, every megawatt we generate, is the megagwatt doesn't influence by force of fuels.
This plant to harness the power of the sea is the largest of its kind in the world. Electricity for 750,000 homes could be generated if all the projects go ahead. That's a 1.2 GW, roughly what a big conventional power station generators.
That's a very important day, What we've got to done is taking a very big step to making a new technology, and renewable energy technology, wave of tidal, commercially deployed on a grand on a big scale.
The designs range from wave machine, swinging in the swell. To giant turbines , spinning in the tides. And huge pilot paddles, harnessing the currents.
Another component is lowered. There may yet be unexpected cost for chanllages. It is still an early days.
David Shockman, BBC news, in Leeds.
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