If you believe river bottoms are covered only by dead mafiosi bodies and still smelling old shoes, you might be living in another century. But if you don’t, you might be very wrong.
City councils are getting hot about green power, and among them, the NYC city council is launching underwater electrical power plants. The cool thing is those power plants are wrapped into some flow that never stop. So the electricity power never ends.
Now, the figures. Each water turbine is “buried” at least 6 meters (20 feet) under the water surface, usually in water currents whose flows go as fast as a regular jogger. Power units are not floating but anchored to water bottoms.
According to Verdant Power, the company behind these machines, the first set of four tidal turbines was deployed this March in the East River. That makes around 40MW going into the city electrical power grid, surpasses the generated output of good wind turbines such as the QuietRevolution turbine, and possibly supplies the energy demand of a somewhat giant mall.
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