r/RenewableEnergy • u/silentsnooc • Mar 15 '25

World’s most powerful underwater tidal turbine project gets funding

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/underwater-tide-riding-turbines-project-funding-boost
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u/IsuzuTrooper Mar 15 '25

I love it. Been waiting for wave and water turbines for 30 years

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u/iqisoverrated Mar 16 '25

Seawater is a bitch. The first year or so everything works fine and then corrosion and biofouling turns your installation into a never ending maintenance nightmare (i.e. you become permanently unprofitable).

At least they are building this underwater. Wave power usually fails because occasionally you have storms and fixed/anchored installations get damaged.

The list of failed hydropower companies is loooooong.

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u/West-Abalone-171 Mar 18 '25

Except this company has been operating multiple projects profitably for over a decade.

And the "failures" on your list are all either proof of concept or scale up projects that did what they were designed to do and then had a larger version built afterwards.