The Belgian start-up Turbulent Hydro has invented a turbine that generates electricity with rivers without carbon impact and without major work. It provides electricity 24 hours a day, does not endanger any marine animals and powers up to 500 homes!
The Belgian start-up Turbulent Hydro has invented a turbine that generates electricity with rivers without carbon impact and without major work. It provides electricity 24 hours a day, does not endanger any marine animals and powers up to 500 homes!
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Nice, but why always this expression of “can power x houses”, just use watt and joule.
Whats next? Expressing power in bananas grown per year?
“invented”
Ah yes. a ‘start-up’ promises ’24/7′ power to ‘500 homes’.My skepticism senses are tingling so hard they could power 500 homes.
Let’s place it next to the rebreather, the vacuum super dryer, the hyperloop, …
In belgium more often than not it’s about who you know instead of what you’re doing that gets you funding. You can more or less extend it to the EU as well.
Now all we need are streams and rivers with some amount of water.
That’s cool and all, but the Belgian government would still put a tax on perpetual motion if it was ever *invented*.
woah I had seen this 2 years ago on youtube I think… did not know it was Belgian though… 😮
Maybe not endanger marine animals…. But the river animals will have a good time passing through it /s
That’s old news
Powers 500 homes at 1W/home!
This looks like a hydroelectric dam with more steps to make it less efficient and more expensive. This will not work on belgian rivers north of la Meuse due to the limited height difference in all rivers.
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Furthermore, marine animals are typically not disturbed by what is happening on rivers, marine animals live in the sea. Fish and river animals will be hindered by big concrete blocks.
We’ve actually looked at using something like this in a project in West-Flanders.
Two issues:
1) You need a certain ‘guaranteed flow’, which requires it not being a small stream but one with sufficient, year-round (including in these dry times) flow
2) You need a sufficiënt height difference to be able to use the water pressure. In the ‘flat’ parts of the country, the height differences on the bigger streams are too small in many places to be able to rely on it.
That small rotex coupling just adds to the existing pollution of synthetic polymers.
Belgians also smart, like Dutchman
Howlong can the company be a startup it feels like this exists for years, or atleast the advertisement does..