In a remote town of Eagle, Alaska, a river turbine is turning kinetic energy to electricity without building dams. The 25 kilowatt turbine, made by New Energy Corp., is attached to a barge in the Yukon River, requires no dam on the river at all and rotates at slow enough speeds that aquatic life is not placed at risk.
AP&T claims the project will make Eagle Village the first town in the United States to be entirely powered by a hydrokinetic river turbine. Pilot and small-scale projects like this are plenty but scaling them to supply bigger areas is the challenge.
What exactly are the challenges of scaling up? Do share your thoughts. Why cannot this model be adopted instead of opting for huge, multi-million dollar projects that displaces people and forests?
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Got the info from an expert that such systems work for deep rivers only... and to generate power of 250 KW there will be need for turbine measuring 7.6 meters in diameter.
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