• AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/11732
• "The Department of Energy and Climate Change awarded Minesto and its partners £500,000 ($835,000) to advance their work on their tidal-power device, a sort of kite that zips around underwater with an attached spinning turbine capturing power."
• Press Release, 2014, 3 page, PDF                        (Backup)

"Deep Green" is term for the tidal paravane project.

"The second stage uses a generator
to convert kinetic energy into electrical power.

The net result is increased power from a smaller package. The planned normal full size weighs only 7 tons excluding anchoring which gives an energetic payback time of 3 weeks, compared to 8 months for onshore wind."

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• AirborneWindEnergy/message/8987

  • sspa.se/files/field_page_files/hl_56_2012.pdf

    • "Minesto is now working on the next prototype on a 1:4 scale. It will be installed at sea in the end of 2012 and will be tested over a period of one year. The main focus in these tests will be electricity production. Minesto is pursuing a focused development plan where the goal is to deploy the first full scale prototype
      in 2014, a 3MW Deep Green array in 2015, and increasing to a 10MW array in 2016.   Jan Hallander "

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• Kite tech of air kites will play to advance paravane tech. Fertile ideas can play the other way also.

• Hybrid air and water systems are part of AWECS. E.g., the air kite towing of a barge that is saturated with water turbines.

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• Sweeps in the low-velocity current multiplies the energy-harvesting just like we do in air kiting.
   "The method increases the flow velocity into the turbine by 10 times, compared to the actual stream velocity."

• Safety to fish?

• Consider an anchored or chute-staid boat. Consider air-kite towing paravane electricity producer.

• Is the general ocean currents too slow for this?   Explore.

• Underwater Kite – Use Ocean Forces to Generate Energy | Tech News ...
  Oct 27, 2009 ... underwater-kite-energy-generator. We have seen the kite based energy generator back there in 2008 called Laddermill and I thought that is ...

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