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Orbital O2: The world’s most powerful tidal turbine
Engineering firm Orbital Marine Power has delivered its first O2 tidal turbine to Scotland’s Orkney Islands, where it will connect to the grid and supply power to thousands of homes. Orbital Marine Power official site: Subscribe to CNET: CNET playlists: Download the new CNET app: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us…
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cattigereyes1
May 25, 2021 at 2:15 pm
Just cage the rotors and whale issue solved.
Minom Pnom
May 25, 2021 at 2:26 pm
why not mention the actual output in terms of watts instead of talking about “2000 homes”? 2000 homes running 3 10W led lightbulbs or what?
Ivan S
May 25, 2021 at 3:07 pm
That particular turbine has a 2 MW capacity.
Minom Pnom
May 25, 2021 at 5:33 pm
@Ivan S thanks.
Kal-El Price
May 25, 2021 at 2:33 pm
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Andy Altman
May 25, 2021 at 2:40 pm
Is the O2 and tidal power the future of clean energy? Drop a ???? Below!
Soren Ficklin
May 26, 2021 at 1:15 am
No lol
ToolDroid2
May 26, 2021 at 6:41 am
I dunno
jimmydx
May 28, 2021 at 12:49 am
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ToolDroid2
May 28, 2021 at 12:52 am
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Marshmellafella
May 29, 2021 at 12:46 am
Not for Mongolia!
Barry Doyle
June 17, 2021 at 3:52 pm
@V I you’re a fool like the rest. Plutonium 234 has a half-life of less than 10 hours. Nuclear reactors create a whole range of waste, some forms lasting from milliseconds up to millennia.
V I
June 17, 2021 at 4:30 pm
@Barry Doyle My guy… What are the levels of radiation, for nuclear waste, after 10 years. Can you not read?
Barry Doyle
June 17, 2021 at 4:36 pm
@V I I can read just fine thank you but I can’t help it if the reader is too stupid to understand the answer.
V I
June 17, 2021 at 4:41 pm
@Barry Doyle WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF RADIATION, AFTER 10 YEARS, FOR NUCLEAR WASTE !!??
Barry Doyle
June 17, 2021 at 4:49 pm
@V I how hot is food when you stop cooking it? This is basically what you’ve just asked me so i’ll give you a simple answer to what your trying to ask me. Here it is Nuclear waste is not dangerous at all to the public, smoking or texting while driving is 100,000 times more likely to kill you.
Jeremy Baker
May 25, 2021 at 3:10 pm
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Horizon
May 25, 2021 at 3:35 pm
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Sam Chiu
May 25, 2021 at 3:44 pm
Will it cut and dice up sea life like whales?
N.D.
May 25, 2021 at 4:02 pm
Is tide power or wind power renewable? Most people believe it. I am not sure. If we harness that energy it wouldn’t go natural circulation sequel. Are we going to disturb our nature with green technologies?
VAMobMember
May 25, 2021 at 4:21 pm
This is going to increase MAN CAUSED climate change by altering the natural tidal flows.
35mmraw
May 25, 2021 at 4:30 pm
So one of these can power 2000 homes? In that case we just need 33 thousand of them to power the UK. Seems doable
Sarthak Mishra
May 25, 2021 at 4:43 pm
My best wishes to Orbital. ????
Tino Martinez
May 25, 2021 at 5:16 pm
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DasviDaniya
May 25, 2021 at 5:56 pm
What about marine life ?
David Júnior
May 25, 2021 at 6:05 pm
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kimoshwaby
May 25, 2021 at 6:12 pm
Why not: span nets across to catch fish concurrently…. or add towers to these and turn them into bridges. For cables etc…or even wind turbines, make them multi use innit
Swapnil Chopade
May 25, 2021 at 6:18 pm
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Mark Nadams
May 25, 2021 at 7:03 pm
The O2 with two turbines is a good start to prove the technology. They need to ramp it up and make the future ships more productive. Put more turbines at key points front and rear to make the O6 with 6 turbines. Then add another length on each arm to get to the deeper currents and put turbines on them to make the O12 with twelve turbines.
MrJG
May 25, 2021 at 9:36 pm
I’ve been following the progress of the Scottish tidal renewable energy sector for about the last 10 years. It’s amazing to finally see it get to this stage. It would make me so happy to see this up and running in Scotland and take potentially get us to a place where almost all energy production in Scotland was from a zero carbon, or low carbon source.
Ou8y2k2
May 25, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Combine tidal with solar, wind, geothermal, and carbon negation, and we could have a chance this century.
Ou8y2k2
May 25, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Combine tidal with solar, wind, geothermal, flow-state battery storage, and carbon negation, and we could have a chance this century.
I Z E K O L
May 27, 2021 at 8:02 pm
bruh we can just use nuclear
Ou8y2k2
May 29, 2021 at 12:10 am
@I Z E K O L Not if we bomb countries that try to do so. The safer fusion reactors are still about a dozen or so inventions away from practicality and therefore profitability.
28kb
May 25, 2021 at 11:04 pm
Key component in your story missing.. Power capacity?
weAreNotAloneHere
May 26, 2021 at 12:02 am
To think Nicola tesla found energy in the air and where still following the law of the people who wanted cables
Alan DesRoches
May 26, 2021 at 12:10 am
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Amrlxy19
May 26, 2021 at 12:17 am
I thought tides move up and down
thearab59
May 26, 2021 at 4:44 am
At the location it is going to there is a strong east-west flow as water moves from North Sea to North Atlantic (and back). Boats have to sail at about a 45 degree angle to go straight. May be wrong, but I think I recall it being 8 or 9 knots, almost all the time.
Russell Gililland
May 26, 2021 at 12:21 am
what kind of rpm are we talking here on the propellers? Any concern with debris entanglement or damage to marine life? Maintenance seems hefty. This should be used to mine crypto.
uuuu260
May 26, 2021 at 1:42 am
But how is the electricity stored/delivered if it’s offshore?
Mavrik9000
May 28, 2021 at 3:14 am
In the video, they show a big red wire cable.
Crazy Oldfart
May 26, 2021 at 3:08 am
There are cheaper ways to harness the oceans energy
Mavrik9000
May 28, 2021 at 3:12 am
Sources and links please?
Nithin
May 26, 2021 at 3:08 am
this looks so sci-fi I love it
Paul Biggs
May 26, 2021 at 7:56 am
I have a design which will get ocean power a lot cheaper. My design also floats and is totally scalable. You can contact me at
S_time
May 26, 2021 at 9:48 am
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JMEW
May 26, 2021 at 10:01 am
Teeth.
Ayrton Ralph
May 26, 2021 at 11:42 am
Has there been testing on how many animals this will kill
Hugh Kelly
May 26, 2021 at 6:44 pm
Awesome and hopeful!
order9066
May 27, 2021 at 12:26 pm
CNET posts on a video platform created and run by Yanks but uses meters in the description.
sam brand
May 28, 2021 at 1:30 am
Please work on audio quality……
Brian Effinger
May 28, 2021 at 2:09 am
Pretty cool.
T.A.K
May 28, 2021 at 8:36 pm
Simple turbine effect is used for example in jet engine (plasma, fuel, gas, etc) more multilevel blades means more bidrectional power. Adding also hydrophobic coating if used under water. And so on, and so on.
Fernando Esteban
June 12, 2021 at 6:48 am
A good development. 20 years of development has to start going on stream.
crispy
June 12, 2021 at 11:21 am
Not much detail on the unit here, plenty of the O2 companies marketing propaganda and loud BGM but if you wanted specifications like Gigawatt-hours produced, Unit Lifespan, Installation cost, annual operating cost, even blade speed – none of that here.
This is just a rehash of the companies propaganda dressed up like a researched news article, basically *It’s a pig in a skirt”* .
avon neave
June 12, 2021 at 3:58 pm
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chumito10
June 12, 2021 at 6:07 pm
Underlying music was too loud in relationship to the narration
jusk
June 12, 2021 at 7:54 pm
Nice fish blender.
ruffa nuff
June 12, 2021 at 8:57 pm
tax payers money at work as always for another lame project.
Toni Johnson
June 12, 2021 at 9:25 pm
Thats why they got rid of LORAN and went to GPS. It had too many limitations
flypimpin ogflypimp
June 12, 2021 at 9:46 pm
Those tugboats use oil those blades were made out of oil that whole structure was made out of oil and only 2,000 houses the rest of the houses are going to need oil for the electricity. Oil ain’t going nowhere people and global warming climate change BS it’s such a hoax they show you a picture of an iceberg falling off of a nice shelf and everybody freaks out they’ve got y’all’s heads brainwashed and they’re making billions of dollars while you’re broke and eating it all up at home
Mus Sim
June 12, 2021 at 10:09 pm
Great news!
Ali Farid
June 13, 2021 at 7:30 am
Excellent video
Richard Wright
June 13, 2021 at 10:50 am
Great idea. The tidal flow in/out of San Francisco Bay would be a great location
doverbeachcomber
June 20, 2021 at 6:01 pm
True enough. But here in California we’ll need to wait about 30 years for all the regulatory bodies to sign off, all the environmental studies to be done, and all the eco-lawsuits to be settled. Plus, of course, the ways that this can enrich politicians and well-connected insiders must be worked out.
Alan Capes
June 13, 2021 at 12:09 pm
The most important questions for transformative tech are: can it scale efficiently and TCO?
Astroknott 58
June 13, 2021 at 1:03 pm
Will this ever produce enough power to even pay for itself? I have my doubts…… But I hope I am wrong.
Bill Leavens
June 13, 2021 at 1:08 pm
It’s all about baseload power – energy that can be reliably sustained. Tidal energy generation fits that bill. That has to be part of the makeup of future power delivery systems. However not every place in the world has tidal waters nearby. That’s why we have to invest in the development and deployment of small, modular, factrory-built reactors. They are carbon-free, amazingly efficient, and they can be sited virtually anywhere. Need more power? Add more reactors.
uowebfoot
June 13, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Solve climate change. lol. Climate always changes.
AppleJacksApple1
June 13, 2021 at 5:38 pm
I honestly thought this was gonna be a really cool ship
Don't Be Stupid
June 14, 2021 at 1:01 am
This is a great development in the tidal energy sector.
Chronokun
June 14, 2021 at 2:28 am
being predictable is a step up over wind… but it’s still intermittent right?
tides go in and out, but between going in and out they have to turn, at which point there will be a gap in energy production, not as much of an issue as with wind and solar, but still another case of renewable energy being less than ideal, seems that hydro and geothermal are still the only exceptions to this
Pepeijndhoven
June 14, 2021 at 4:46 am
What about sound? Does it generate any?
codyzellner
June 14, 2021 at 11:49 am
But what about the fishes!? Won’t someone think about the fishes!?
Re Publish
June 14, 2021 at 1:21 pm
Finally something fresh and new.
Greta idea!
TubersAndPotatoes
June 16, 2021 at 4:21 pm
If it’s built in an array over a big area, will it slow down the currents? Any studies how that can effect the environment, salinity, temperature, etc.
J Andersen
June 16, 2021 at 6:38 pm
There isn’t a scarcity of renewable energy. There is a scarcity of money to invest in building renewable energy. This will only come when prices are low enough, and that is happening gradually.
Covering only 1% of the Saharan dessert in solar cells would provide enough electricity for the whole planet.
There is a problem in storing and transporting renewable electricity for long distances. This is where the production of synthetic fuel comes in.
FerMild
June 18, 2021 at 5:11 am
This is how we got energy for 100 years in future