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Idénergie’s River Turbine Generates Energy from Flowing Water

Mila Luleva — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:51:41 +0000

A fresh new project on Kickstarter takes on the ancient idea of water mills and creates a modern river turbine that can provide cheap and clean energy for water purification, agriculture and even plug-in gadgets to fight malaria. Life without electricity is almost impossible to imagine. Yes, there are quite a number of emerging technologies and gadgets that […]

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Analysis on Pressure-Retarded Osmosis Reveals High Energy Generation Potential

Guest Contributor — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:59:33 +0000

River mouths have recently been reported to have the capacity to produce renewable electricity that could support over half a billion people. A river mouth is where a river drains into the ocean. At that point there is a process termed as pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) that takes place. According to the new analysis, the pressure-retarded […]

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Power Generating River Turbines To Be Installed Under Famous Parisian Bridges

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:49:32 +0000

After having installed the heating systems of some of their buildings based on underground springs, and mini-windmills on buildings, the people of Paris will have yet another clean energy generation project right under their famous and historical bridges. They call them "hydroliennes", or water turbines, powered by the river Seine (if you haven't visited Paris, you should).

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