Giant Sea Snake Renewable Electricity Generation

[SuperGilberto1977]

THOSE SNAKES STILL NEED OIL LMAO

FAIL

[TheMastercromio]

@SuperGilberto1977 Oil? If is true its not renewable!! So, try to research it more clearly!!

[sailingsolar]

I guess you put it out that far to sell copper wire and to,,,, sell copper wire?

[samawal3131]

what about sea algea and sea creatures like shells and stuff...wont they stick on this device and cause severe friction losses...does it mean u have to clean the machine continuasly

[newage4energy]

This looks like good potential when oil goes up much further. Seems that rough stormy type seas would have a silver lining for this type of generator. Calm seas would not.

[homskoult]

These seem to work in mild seas, however, the sea can be very unpredictable. I would find it hard to believe the metal joints could survive the seas at their worst. What type of hydraulic fluid are you using? Could it cause contamination in a failure. The idea seems good enough to have been built and deployed, have they, and where.

[randomizerman]

@homskoult you can always use water and plastic, cylinders. It is not high speed so should not over heat like heavy equipment.

[homskoult]

@randomizerman Under mild conditions yes, but who is going to bring them in when the weather gets rough? One design allowed the mechanism to drop to the ocean floor. However there is still the matter of sea growth. Barnacles and seaweed would stop them from working in a short time. 

[jwallbanger]

this is great. you could stretch these across the ocean for hundreds of miles, generating gigawatts of power. they probably have a positive impact on the marine environment too due to the reef effect.

[HorizonDelta]

Nice ! More tech on "Wonderful energy" by HorizonDelta ;-)

[maco10810]

Its a good idea, but its a bitch to maintain and operate, and the ocean will soon destroy them - take the same idea and mount it on a beach with the complex parts on land and an arm that is connected to a flotation device which goes up and down

[taigness]

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[taigness]

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[anubismoon2010]

Reverse osmosis the gulf with this guy while my glass veins pulse. thats straight from the heart, meanning the center of the universe. no joke

[jerryaltman]

Corrosion it's a huge problem. !!!

[ozling2]

better not leak lol

[tool5150]

efficient would be good but lets face it if we could use geothermal, tidal, solar ,wind and wave power instead of burning fossil fuels and nuclear energy we would be way ahead of where we are now.

[rock3tcat]

Thanks.

[rock3tcat]

Well that's what my thermodynamics professor said. Btw. I'm a Mech. Engineering student. :)

[rock3tcat]

Actually it's 40% for the Stirling engine. :)

[Gibson1i3]

These things are actually

VERY big

MUCH bigger than you would imagine

like a bunch of submarines hooked togethor on hinges

[lsbus]

very ingenious system, but i doubt it's efficiency due tu the complexity of it's maitenance

[tool5150]

lol you think a nuclear power plant is efficient and not complex lol

[Sikringsskap]

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[WolYou]

Crap. You'll need lots of cables and maintenance work to keep it in shape. Good for the industry, bad for the consumer. The only energy ressource worth being established is geothermal energy. But this means independence of weather and suppliers for daily needed equipment, no transportation and low running-cost. All of those factors are a threat to big energy corporations.

[boxa888]

nikola tesla talked of this 100 yrs ago! look up "increaseing human energy"by nikola tesla! he talks of all of the renewable energy sources and also his wireless energy transfer system which would give wireless power to everyone on the earth! i even did a 20 ft wireless energy transfer which is key to showing how his system works! this system would give thousand miles range of energy for everyone to obtain like a radio but with industrial power being tranfered!

[jmvneto51]

When I see those projects I realize what a winner I created. I cant even imagine the kind of maintenance each of these strings of interconnected pods would require. My project has nothing floating around. What I use is just the swells we see in this video but in a completely different way and everything that needs some kind of maintenance is just out of the water! We already have the technology my project requires, we just need someone to pay attention on that.

[jmvneto51]

sorry about the long name but this is the name of my video: ocean power, wave power,wind turbines, sun power, (ocean power, the blue power (3rd edition))

[valleyken]

very smart.

[floopiitee]

chuparme  la polla TODOS

[popasmurf44]

this would have been better with sound........ one concern i have is wat happens if the oil stuff leaks into the sea? shouldn't we be making generators that dont have the potential to harm the enviorment? Even though solar panels and wind farns aren't very efficiant, they dont harm the enviorment at all, unless u count the land needed to build it on......:-)

[paralian]

@popasmurf44

I don't think there is such a thing as an energy generator that doesn't have the potential to harm the environment.

[elastoplastscavenger]

they use biodegradable oil

[hoser4]

Actually, wind farms have been known to alter rain fall patterns, which can argued as ruining (especially farm) land. This makes sense, since not as much wind energy exists to carry the rain to where it'd normally fall.

However, every man-made structure has this effect to some degree: cities, with all their blacktop roofs and blacktop streets, are reknowned for their artificial "hot spots". If you've ever noticed that airplanes experience more turbulence when flying over a city, this is why.

[joeydendron]

At the moment we're shipping 10000s of tonnes of crude around... I bet these things use a microscopic fraction of that amount, and potentially of less lethal oil, too.

[peterb1968]

The only problem is getting the power to the power grids. What sorts of voltages do these machines produce. Will there be an inverter to change from DC to AC.

[hoser4]

Turbines couple to AC generators, eliminating the need for inverters. This is not a DC machine.

[marysarmento]

Portugal is just the next big thing!

[tcboarder]

how bout every morning everyone in America has to check into a bike gym that uses there fat burning exercise to turn turbines making electricity? kill two bird with one stone, boo ya!

[IronbreakerFTW]

Fucking brilliant idea! I think you're onto a winner...

[rOckrOckproductions]

yep, the guy who posted this video is definitely the guy who invented the sea snake

[IronbreakerFTW]

actually, thanks for the sarcasm...but you made yourself look like an arse. My comment wasn't to the video but was a reply to someone elses comment, and because of the page formatting it looks like its a seperate one.

[apocalyptichybrid3]

Excuse me. Tidal, I meant to add Tidal not Wave again.

[apocalyptichybrid3]

This is the future of energy. Along with Wave, Wind, and Solar. And of course geothermal. The earth only uses 0.5 ZJ a year, the above technologies are estimated to be able to create more than 2,000ZJ(4,000 Years)

[peterb1968]

Dont forget solar thermal too

[theannoyingdogpoo]

Is this pair of dead twigs, looking like floating dog poos only stretched and red-paint, all?

5MW? Up to? So through most of the time it'll generate less, say 3 MW.

3MW? A single massive fart by some American fat bloke has more power.

[ggcpres]

a single fart from an American fat guy could power half of England for 5 weeks.

[SWINGREGORY]

très cool

[carltbird]

Are we doing this?

[petitchti]

I think you speak english so i will try to speak in english even if it there will be some mistakes^^

The TPE stands for Travaux Personnels Encadrés => it's a test for the baccalauréat ( like the CGE A LEvels(or something like that) in england...

thx

En français: TPE= travaux personnels encadrés=> c'est une épreuve pour le baccalauréat^^

[thefuturehasarrived]

Translation: inspired ouaou thank you I feel that I go to use it for my TPE = D PS:merci cam =) lol: p

[petitchti]

ouaou génial merci je sens que je vais m'en servir pour mon TPE =D

PS:merci cam =)lol :p

[thefuturehasarrived]

TPE? C'est quoi?