
Developing an Environmentally-Friendly and Fish-Saving Hydropower Turbine with Abe Schneider, Co-founder and CTO of Natel Energy
Hardware to Save a Planet
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Hydro Power Wind Turbine Blades - The Thickness Provides a Great Opportunity to Cut Down on Costs
These blades are quite thick, they're at least 10 times thicker than a conventional blade. They pose some pretty interesting manufacturing challenges, but also some really significant manufacturing opportunities. We've been operating for three years, a turbine that's just around six feet in diameter with fiber composite blades in Oregon with one of our fish safe designs. And so the market is not possible to basically force everyone to use one solution is one way to think about it.
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