Imagine a very long lever, one end connected to a floating dock, 100 yards offshore, the pivot on the beach, the other end 1000 yards away connected to linkage driving a traditional generator with "train wheel" linkage. How much torque is generated at the lever end given a tidal rise of 6 feet in 7 hours?
Surfers know big power comes from a "wave funnel" such as Bay of Biscay, Biarritz. A series of concrete wave funnels affecting large bicycle crank wave reacting paddles geared to traditional generators would be out of the way of boating. Or capture power of tidal rise/fall of floating concrete slabs positioned by geared pilings, w generators on the slab connected by gears/transmissions to the pilings.
Imagine a very long lever, one end connected to a floating dock, 100 yards offshore, the pivot on the beach, the other end 1000 yards away connected to linkage driving a traditional generator with "train wheel" linkage. How much torque is generated at the lever end given a tidal rise of 6 feet in 7 hours?
treasurector 2 years ago
Surfers know big power comes from a "wave funnel" such as Bay of Biscay, Biarritz. A series of concrete wave funnels affecting large bicycle crank wave reacting paddles geared to traditional generators would be out of the way of boating. Or capture power of tidal rise/fall of floating concrete slabs positioned by geared pilings, w generators on the slab connected by gears/transmissions to the pilings.
treasurector 2 years ago