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Shell to generate electricity from Mississippi River currents!
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:43 pm
Shell is teaming up with a Maine company (ORPC) to install modular units in the River. Sort of a like an underwater windmill. As strong as those currents are, I wonder why this hasn’t been done before?
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Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:47 pm to Cycledude
Is this the first time you’ve ever heard of hydroelectric power?
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:47 pm to Cycledude
Crawfish prices gonna skyrocket!
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:48 pm to soccerfüt
fish are gonna die from impeller bashing
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:49 pm to Cycledude
There's been a hydroelectric station near Ferriday since sometime in the eighties
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:49 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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Is this the first time you’ve ever heard of hydroelectric power?
This will be interesting with all the logs and drift that come down the river. Not to mention the water moving the sand basically sand blast anything in their way and permeate their way into anything mechanical.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:51 pm to Cycledude
They have been doing that for years near Vidalia.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:51 pm to Cycledude
Copper thieves fidna eat
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:52 pm to Cycledude
Crappy post, OP.
No link to the article, no quotes, and no pictures.
Here, let me do it for you.
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/can-the-mississippi-river-create-zero-carbon-electricity/article_f45bd2da-eb90-11ed-9f84-3fe0b9ea5deb.html
I was told by a retired Gulf States/Entergy exec that they tried and failed at this in the 80's. The amount of debris and sediment in the river around Baton Rouge was constantly clogging and damaging the system.
ETA: just read that part of the article.
No link to the article, no quotes, and no pictures.
Here, let me do it for you.
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/can-the-mississippi-river-create-zero-carbon-electricity/article_f45bd2da-eb90-11ed-9f84-3fe0b9ea5deb.html
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ORPC, a Maine-based company developing equipment that can generate zero-carbon electricity from river and ocean currents, has signed an agreement with Shell Technology to use Mississippi River currents to produce power. The agreement is aimed at installing one or more demonstration projects at up to three Shell facilities between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, company officials said recently. Shell Technology is a division of the oil giant.
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ORPC may also install one of its Modular RivGen Power System units near the LSU Center for River Studies Baton Rouge water campus, where the electricity could power existing Shell electric vehicle charging stations nearby, said Nathan Johnson, ORPC’s vice president for development.
The units are turbines spun by water flowing through a horizontal structure -- sort of like an underwater windmill. They are designed to generate electricity when the water is moving through the structure at about 2 1/4 meters per second, equivalent to about 7 1/2 feet per second.
Each set of two units could produce about 35 kilowatts per hour of electricity at that flow rate, he said, enough to power 22 Louisiana homes a day. The units are modular and stackable, so 100 or more could be placed in the Mississippi to generate electricity that would be delivered to shore by underwater cables.
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I wonder why this hasn’t been done before?
I was told by a retired Gulf States/Entergy exec that they tried and failed at this in the 80's. The amount of debris and sediment in the river around Baton Rouge was constantly clogging and damaging the system.
ETA: just read that part of the article.
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Researchers with the Center for River Studies are assisting in determining the ability of the units to be placed in locations near the Shell facilities where they will generate the most electricity while also not blocking vessel traffic. Still to be determined is whether debris carried by the river, or its sediment load, might be a limiting factor for individual units.
This post was edited on 5/10/23 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:55 pm to Cycledude
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Sort of a like an underwater windmill.
Turbine is the word you are looking for. There are 2 of them at Toledo Bend Dam.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:56 pm to Jim Rockford
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There's been a hydroelectric station near Ferriday since sometime in the eighties
If that is the one by the Old River Control Structure, it uses elevation change as it allowing water to go from the high Mississippi into the Old River channels, down into the Atchfalaya River.
This is more like using the flow of the water down river. Much the same way that some places use tides to generate electricity.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:56 pm to Cycledude
lots of dead bodies gonna be stuck to them
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:57 pm to Cycledude
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I wonder why this hasn’t been done before?
There is the Sidney A. Murray Jr. hydroelectric plant that is part of the Old River Control Structure where the Mississippi, Atchafalaya and Red Rivers meet.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:57 pm to Shexter
[link=(fish are gonna die from impeller bashing)]LINK[/link]In other locations the units have been shown to operate without harming fish, including salmon in Alaska.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 4:59 pm to Tarps99
What are they planning to do with this electricity?
Posted on 5/10/23 at 5:01 pm to cbree88
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What are they planning to do with this electricity?
Supplement the power used by the facility one would presume.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 5:03 pm to cbree88
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What are they planning to do with this electricity?
Of course, electric cars...
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ORPC may also install one of its Modular RivGen Power System units near the LSU Center for River Studies Baton Rouge water campus, where the electricity could power existing Shell electric vehicle charging stations nearby, said Nathan Johnson, ORPC’s vice president for development.
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Each set of two units could produce about 35 kilowatts per hour of electricity at that flow rate, he said, enough to power 22 Louisiana homes a day. The units are modular and stackable, so 100 or more could be placed in the Mississippi to generate electricity that would be delivered to shore by underwater cables.
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If the demonstration is successful, ORPC would also attempt to market the generators to other potential users along the Mississippi, including in New Orleans and locations north of Louisiana, Johnson said.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 5:04 pm to Cycledude
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Shell to generate electricity from Mississippi River currents!
Revolutionary….
Posted on 5/10/23 at 5:11 pm to Cycledude
River pilot baws finna have fun
Posted on 5/10/23 at 5:12 pm to Tarps99
Not enough slope in the MS, the Vidalia plant being a one off because the Atchfalaya provides the needed drop.
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