Extreme Tech: It Came From the Sea--Renewable Energy, That Is

cute but they should have just used reversing pitch blades which would have kept the turbines spinning in the same direction regardless of which direction the water was flowing and removed the need to spin the entire structure and linkages.

They produced 50,000kWhr over 6 months, that's equivalent to an 11kW alternator. Unlikely to power much of Manhattan. ffeJ

From small acorns do large oak trees grow! There's no point in building a machine like that out in the deep sea without testing a smaller, easily accessible one near to home! Find it's weaknesses, tweak it, play with the design a bit and Bobs ya uncle!

I don't know the actual date or the power output, but the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) was docked in New York harbor sometime in the late 80's. A major power outage occured, I'm not sure why, but it was catastrophic to the area. Anyway, the Enterprise was hooked to the grid and powered several cities in the area while on "standby". The Enterprise didn't even have to strain to do so. Power Manhattan, power New York State...couple hundred pounds of Uranium...and no one died...just another wondering mind.

The question is, what exactly is it powering now ?