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Re: Scotland: 'World's most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2021, 05:21:45 AM »
Nice. vid is short and neat.
2000 homes.  I wonder what the power profile is like.
Sinusoidal I guess. We need them scattered round the coast, or great storage again.
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Re: Scotland: 'World's most powerful' tidal turbine sets sail from Dundee
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2021, 10:48:53 AM »
That thing looks really cool.  It makes a lot of sense in the Orkney's and all those other smaller inhabited islands surrounding Great Britain.

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Skip to the good part in this video

https://youtu.be/4d9zs0W9u2A?t=170


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Orbital's O2 floating turbine starts exporting clean power to the grid
https://newatlas.com/energy/orbital-o2-floating-marine-turbine-grid-connection/

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