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Old 04-16-2008, 07:29 PM   #36
brian eiland
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Tidal Flow Rim Drive Generator

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Originally Posted by kach22i
Awesome, I can see this making it's way onto larger hovercraft in an air screw version.
Like this:

The NASA version.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/RT/2003/...20emerson.html


Your magnetic turbine posting came to mine when I was looking for rim-drive propulsion concepts operated in reverse....as generators of electrical power in high tidal/current zones.

I ran across this interesting site:
Tidal Flow Generator
http://www.openhydro.com/home.html
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