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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810327603321

Autore

Li͡atkher V. M (Viktor Mikhaĭlovich)

Titolo

Tidal power : harnessing energy from water currents / / Victor Lyatkher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem, Massachusetts : , : Scrivener Publishing

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-118-72096-2

1-118-72109-8

1-118-72103-9

9781118721032

9781118720912

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

621.31/2134

Soggetti

Tidal power

Tidal power-plants

Hydraulic turbines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Marine hydro kinetic- MHK 1 -- Rivers (channels) power plants without a dam -- Low-speed hydro-kinetic turbines -- Large power hydro turbines -- Examples of turbines produced -- Water current power-looking to the future.

Sommario/riassunto

As the global supply of conventional energy sources, such as fossil fuels, dwindles and becomes more and more expensive, unconventional and renewable sources of energy, such as power generation from water sources, is becoming more and more important.  Hydropower has been around for decades, but this book suggests new methods that are more cost-effective and less intrusive to the environment for creating power sources from rivers, the tides, and other sources of water.     The energy available from water currents is potentially much greater than society's needs.  Presenting a detai