The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Company ™
MARINE  POWER AND  WATER, INC.
Last update 6-30-2009


POWER


Examples of renewable, indigenous flowing water sources in the United States that can be utilized to generate pollution-free power, many of which have heretofore been considered unpractical, uneconomical, unable to be utilized, or simply overlooked, are:

  • The Ocean Gulf Stream off the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida
  • The South-flowing Ocean Current off California, Oregon, Washington, Canada, and Mexico
  • Rivers and Streams
  • Tidal Straits
  • Irrigation Canals
  • Aqueducts
  • Drainage Systems
  • Industrial Water Discharge Outflows
  • Discharge Flows from Water Storage and Diversion Dams (40,000 in the U.S.).

Aquakinetics™ energy converters (patent pending)  produce clean, renewable electricity by harnessing the in-stream hydrokinetic energy that is produced by the water's movement.

Aerokinetics™ energy converters (patent pending) provide clean, renewable electricity by harnessing the energy of the wind.

Both the Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters are fully scalable in size - from large industrial/commercial to smaller residential installations.

Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters operate completely outside the carbon cycle converting renewable and sustainable energy resources into clean, useable power.

Aquakinetics™ energy converters are capable of operating in horizontal, vertical, floating, fixed, submerged, or a combination of those positions, which offers extreme operational flexibility.  They will also produce electricity under flow conditions that may vary dramatically with location, weather, and/or season.

No dams, impounds, or conduits are required for the Aquakinetics™ energy converters to generate electrical energy from moving water.  E.g., the converters are deployable downstream from existing water storage dams, irrigation diversion dams, hydroelectric generating facilities, or pump storage facilities allowing for power generation totally within the existing dams' footprints.

Over four times the total annual hydroelectric power produced at dams in the United States is potentially available from the in-stream hydrokinetic energy in rivers, and discharge flows from existing hydroelectric dams.  Hydroelectric power provides more than half the energy used in the northwest United States, holding electric rates well below the national average.

Floating Aquakinetics™ energy converters range from 5000 W to 5 MW.

Aerokinetics™ energy converters range from 1000 W to 500 KW.  These units may be mounted on top of a floating Aquakinetics™ unit.  Although Aerokinetics™ are considered an “intermittent” provider of energy, they are powerful when used to supplement the Aquakinetics™ energy converters. 

We have optimized energy production by innovatively combining the Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters with our new duplexing technique.  In this duplex configuration, both flowing water and wind energy are captured simultaneously.

Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters will:

  • Produce zero-carbon power, and meet all the state and federal mandates of renewable energy, making them very environmentally attractive,

  • Generate power that will provide the United States with additional new energy security, and

  • Add diversity to the United States’ and the world’s renewable energy supply. 

Each KW hour produced by the Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ units can be utilized to power down a greenhouse gas generating fossil fuel plant firing coal or gas.

The output from a single Aquakinetics™ energy converter can offset thousands of tons of CO2 and
SO2 emissions annually.

Unlike intermittent wind and solar renewable power providers, Aquakinetics™ generated power provides a 24/7 backbone based load capacity to the electrical grid.

Water current flows are predictable and available 24 hours a day with an energy density 850 times greater than wind.  Even with low flows, Aquakinetics™ power is an effective, clean, and renewable resource.

Unlike intermittent renewable power providers Aquakinetics™ converters:

  • Do not require any form of costly fossil fuel fired/on-demand backup generating plants to supplement off-line generation,

  • Fulfill and enable all spinning reserve requirements of the electrical energy industry without burning finite fossil fuels with their inherent greenhouse gases,

  • Can be connected to the grid or utilized as stand-alone applications and are from 70% to 90% mechanically efficient,

  • Are capable of operating in water down to 1000 feet in depth or more, or in very shallow water,

  • Produce power that is capable of being fully dispatched and immediately available to help recovery from a system trip,

  • Are the most cost-efficient systems per KW to install when compared with other renewable energy systems,

  • Improve grid stability, help decentralize power sources of generated power, can act as a backup electricity source when the main grid fails, and will expand opportunity for load frequency control and regulation,

  • Have a 55% higher capacity factor than wind/solar energy, making it the most cost-effective, renewable energy source available, and

  • Operational fuel costs are ZERO!  We have Mother Nature to thank for supplying this FREE energy source.

Our new environmentally friendly approach to power generation will usher in utility scale ocean and wind power systems and be one of the coming technologies that will ride the wave of freedom from climate-changing greenhouse gases produced from carbon-based electrical generation.

Special Notes of Interest

  • Over four times the annual hydroelectric power produced at dams in the United States is potentially available from in-stream hydrokinetic flows of rivers, and discharge flows from hydroelectric dams.

  • In a 2007 study by the Electrical Power Research Institute it was found that by 2025 the United States could develop a minimum of 13,000 MW of river and ocean-based hydrokinetic energy - enough annual pollution-free power for roughly 12 million homes.

  • Earlier estimates by the U. S. Department of Energy showed even greater potential and suggested that with the development of new technologies, the United States might be able to double its water power output, which at that time was 77,000 MW.

  • Twenty percent of all the electrical energy produced in California, a vast majority of which is produced from carbon-polluting generating facilities, is used for transporting water!  Aquakinetics™ energy converters will replace that polluting electrical energy source by utilizing the existing in-stream flowing water resources that are not being employed today.
 
  • Installation of Aquakinetics™ energy converters in California's state and federal water transportation systems has the capability to produce more renewable, pollution-free electrical energy than is now being consumed by the existing water transporting systems.  The carbon-based electrical energy that will be "freed up" could then be utilized elsewhere to help meet the state's growing demands.