Articulating Water Wheel: In-line aquatic kinetic energy capture by SKILLICORN Technologies

How Articulating Water Wheel: In-line aquatic kinetic energy capture creates synergies and adds value to technologically advanced, innovative renewable energy solutions

Hydropower now provides approximately 16% of global energy. Environmental concerns, combined with the very high cost of hydropower CAPEX, however, mitigate against significant future development. Hydropower attention has, accordingly,  migrated to micro-hydro in mountainous regions such as Peru and Ecuador, but there too, loss of glacial ice and snow melt makes such investments – which also require significant steel and cement investments – problematic. STL is reinventing hydropower – focusing on rivers, canals and coastal tidal currents, and using a unique, proprietary floating, articulating paddlewheel device that requires no steel or concrete infrastructure. These units can, under most circumstances produce 100% renewable power for between $20 and $30 per MWH. They integrate well with other STL renewable power sources as providers of distributed baseload power that can also be used to produce hydrogen.  

BENEFITS OF STL Articulating Water Wheel: In-line aquatic kinetic energy capture

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