hundred years ago. people have looked to harness the tide for electricity generation in the twentieth century a number of projects around the globe were proposed but were decried as economic. for a time it looked as if the proponents of title power were fighting a losing battle but hundred sixty three the rance river britany france was blocked off to start construction on what would be the first industrial power station in the world in the process of one and a half million cubic meters of water were displaced for seventy five construction site. twenty four turbines have a capacity of two hundred forty megawatts to this very day but the hefty price tag dampen enthusiasm for such plants in the country but that didn't deter others who knew could be done better and more cheaply. today.

you need to place your. power. i think it's safe to say that there was one man that was the driving force behind the movement in russia. long before it was cool. or. the concept even before. thirty eight when he

was. he had already played at the idea of a power station. where to build one instance while working. he travelled. home which is remarkable. despite the fact that it's up in the arctic circle more months it was already a well established and thriving port in the one nine hundred sixty s. . for innovative engineering projects. because of the many. fluctuations in the water level as the tide rushes are more pronounced than otherwise would be the views can be breathtaking for the last ice age having stripped away the top layer sediment leaving mostly exposed water. purposes the most ideal spot for the world's second title power plant was here it.

was selected because it's. connected directly to the via an especially outlet compared with a concurrent competing project in france. much less invasive site prep was required. there was absolutely nothing nothing at all people thought were going about it. there was no way you can build a tidal power plant like you can and. perhaps the most important breakthrough was a revolutionary method of construction. powerhouse. greatly reduced environmental damage like that scene in france. arctic the climate proved to be another potential obstacle. to find a concrete composition that would survive such severe winters. and we managed to

make create. that we had invented we developed. that is the core of the entire facility. so once the construction was complete they simply attached a giant pontoon filled the dock with water and tugs a whole complex to the chosen site along the way they took the opportunity to monitor how the structure fared in rough seas in total the trip from more months to

measured just a hair under one hundred kilometers. an hour triumph. he had done this before everything went well it took us one day to transport planes . to the underwater foundation this was a great success and once we had done it we get universal recognition. in the decade since those accomplishments have withstood the test of time. floating method has become an industry staple project engineers everywhere cut costs by as much as up to fifty percent and the station itself is also held father time powerhouse operated its entire useful life without problems or substance of repair and engineers tested the state of the two thousand they found that the walls of the structure were in great shape even after nearly forty years of constant freezing and thawing of the arctic frigid waters. at the center of this russian engineering

feat a french turbine with rotatable propellers was the most complex and most expensive part of the power plant it could generate electricity as the tide came in with water rushing into the blocked off as well as in reverse thanks to the special made blade system however most of agree that it's often better to just use in one direction because as water rushes back out to sea it operates at ninety percent efficiency but only fifty percent in the other direction. we bought. us. some friends say it was. good but also very complex and expensive and one of the units was equipped with a french german and the other one was left empty forty five years ago we had hoped that we would eventually make a turban. and so we did here it is an orthogonal turban.

based on what's called a turbine and uses blade shape similar to airplane we. can vary in depends on the speed of the water goes of which way the water flows in the turbine spins in the same direction with no significant change in efficiency after being tested out for a few years and eventually found its way into a brand new title power plant that was being added onto the existing structure. to produce a new turbine and powerhouse hydro turned to mush one of russia's leadership in submarine makers and a testament to the relative simplicity of the new voter system the whole complex complete with turbine generators was constructed in around six months as a factory just outside of the white city about hunger and in two thousand and six following as much fanfare that would normally accompany the launch of a new ocean liner the floating power plant made its maiden as well as final voyage to. and just like the original it was

towed on pontoons into the bay instead of tearing down the existing structure they left it in place and simply attached. to the face of it which by the way had been made a monument to russian science and technology. outfitted with new digital equipment the original control room still remains the hub of human activities here surprisingly simple an actual operation. power plant can be. more than just a few workers. need. any machine. which can be mounted. in the

process of converting. tricity is rather straightforward as well get the turbine spinning it operates pretty much like all other power generation plants out there because of the. vertical shaft. turbine. to create electricity. construction. itself. the past year one and a half. power. power. plant. produced so two was the generator. here. on a tried and true manufacturer to construct probably the second most important part of the whole station. electro machine building factory is one of the country's top

makers of generators. including those special built for small and medium sized hydro electricity plants and then all of that experience prepping for the tidal power plant. the fact that it has to be floated out to. particular challenges for design engineers. in the region of fifty to sixty tons these generators are far more likely to. face to face with water. but whatever the arrangement. the. powers that. were also developed tested. in japan. they were able to achieve an efficiency thirty percent. so they gave up working on such projects i'm

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it took years if not decades to get that turbine just right but now with that in hand. institute of structures is ready for the next. different scale. the roller.

in the waters of. the. tidal power station. five point seven. the powerhouse that. give it a total capacity of twelve however given that the power house is a small part of the entire construction. by using the. project. three fold. thing is that we have. now. exact same term power plants except they're driven by. crashes into the

water. the rising. air inside the. electricity. peak. and the turbine and creating tricity. bunched together to create more. the perhaps most interesting is how they could be combined with tidal power. blocks of. previously simple concrete retaining walls. at the institute and. this is the model of our air driven turbine with a fan that generates an airstream pressure of up to eight pascals. the air rushes through a pressure air duct and into the turbine this is exactly the kind of turbine there will be installed on the new groundbreaking russian wave power plant which scientific research institute of energy structure just finished developing. the

term mine is connected to a thirty generator. stall here including pressure sensors angular rate sensors and turbine air speed sensors . their readings enable us to evaluate a turbines performance. we have an analysis center that collects all these data and studies them to find patterns and correlations. here's where the incoming data get analyzed. even the temperature of various parts of the construction. they can monitor. different speeds or alternating. because the. direction of the flow it's ideal for use in these. in which the direction of. other kinds of converters out there but these

engineers are confident that they're designed for something. like a snake that's naked often gets carried away by the current. the installation is too heavy complex and difficult to secure with all the joints that serve to generate electricity. there are also hydraulic turbines. but their design is way too intricate and leaves something to be desired. there are floating power stations but they also get carried away if there's. a large humanity . first we came up with a concept. and then we successfully applied it in designing a way for our plan. and the ground work for including such wave columns in future projects has already gotten started this past year alone hydro built

a prototype up and. it will produce electricity for the local grid as well as give the engineers back the institute precious data to improve the next generation of ocean energy snatchers. could help. with an inevitable. ok proceeding.

but since the tide only comes in and out twice a day all of its potential energy has to be harnessed in short bursts to help smooth out this and other peaks there is another type of hydro plant out there this one requires an artificial lake but relies on the natural power of gravity. energy right. and pump the water back into the. more often than not. demand in the. balanced approach to

energy. pumped storage power. turbines each with a capacity of two hundred megawatts of generation mode and two hundred twenty megawatts and pumping about it was designed to regulate the energy balance in moscow region and neighboring areas in central russia the power plant was built back in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the one nine hundred ninety s. into reach designed capacity in two thousand but it's currently operates at full power. this practice to storage power stations are normally placed in a mountainous areas with greater water pressure european part of russia doesn't have that kind of terrain however we still managed to set up a fairly efficient facility in spite of an average incline of around one hundred. stations efficiency factor is seventy four percent of all of the equipment here at the station is russian made including its turbines manufactured by power machines

and its engine generator is produced by the general electric heavy engineering plant that's also part of the individual capacity of each turbine two hundred megawatts is quite powerful a few pumped storage power plants in the world can boast that. as you just heard the workhorse of the whole plant is made by a company called power machines located in st petersburg they specialize in big powerful equipment like this giant ship propeller. pump storage are being constructed at the company's metal factory which has been in operation for over one hundred fifty years over the decades around twenty seven hundred turbines with a total combined capacity of over three hundred gigawatts. the factories making four bi directional turbines each of which can crank out two hundred ten megawatts those new turbines are needed because at present in moscow region there's a pressing need for new capacity. as

a result loose hydro is pushing ahead with the second phase here that. it's ok to seven hundred fifty meters south of the existing facility design work started in two thousand. and the first cement was poured in mid two thousand and eight as one of the biggest construction projects in russia at the moment something like sixty million cubic meters of earth to be moved is approaching suez canal like proportions the new expansion comes with a price tag of just over two billion dollars. this gives us a perfect overview of the current state of the construction site really. there we can see how far along. in terms of completion. the water ducts measure a seven and a half meters in diameter and are made out of twenty individual sections three bars welded together before their hold over to the main construction site or concrete is eventually four in the end two hundred thirty six cubic metres of water it will be

able to burst through the pipes every second similar foreign facilities have chosen to use. the time to pipe made of metal is prone to such. but when we were designing our power station it would not be considered employing such metal and even an underground conduit but in the end. economic and safety factors we decided to may not be the cheapest in comparison to those made out of metal it is one hundred percent. according to roos hydras plants the first two turbines will be in place by the end of two thousand and twelve while the third is slated for next year and the fourth in two thousand and fourteen and that really can't come soon enough with analysts saying that moscow region alone could use an additional one and a half of spare capacity in fact in order to get the added waters are quickly as possible to structure the mess and generators are made part is taking place around the clock with five thousand people employed in three shifts for new generators

will boost existing capacity by eight hundred forty megawatts one will reach that powerhouse by travelling eight hundred meters pipes the new roughly twelve million cubic meter pool is being built right next to the existing. one end of the. lower reservoir rather than build an entirely new one the fourth largest pump storage plant in the world achieve it's obvious that if russia should make use of its immense potential for tidal power generation and put it into practice then pumped storage power plants would definitely come in handy particularly to compensate for tidal plants natural cyclical pattern there are. no together or separately these technologies are unlikely to save all of society's needs for electricity but they could soon play a growing role in completing the overall energy picture especially by adding stability to sometimes unreliable sources like solar and wind but most important of all some of the greenest methods of power generation out there interestingly enough perhaps the only ones that don't depend on the sun in one way or the other only

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