INFINITE RESOURCE GROUP, Inc.
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Harnessing energy from water has been a primary source of energy power for thousands of years. In recent years, there has been urgency across Europe to provide more electricity generated by renewable energy to meet EU and Kyoto regulations in response to the debate over climate change. Currently this concern is felt in the US which has spawned a heightened interest in hydro-kinetic systems.
The engineers and scientists of the Hydro Division of IRG have developed technologies capable of extracting energy from multiple water sources. Small units would be capable of producing power in the range of 1 Megawatt. Large units could go as high as 100 Megawatts for a single unit. A typical generator unit will be in the 20 plus Megawatt power range. Using the currents in both rivers and oceans these units can generate power at maximum output 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
"Using the currents in both rivers and oceans these units can generate power at maximum output 24 hours a day 7 days a week. "
INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
BACKGROUND
The experience of land based renewable energy, particularly solar voltaic panels and wind turbine farms, provides a classic example of the failure to provide sufficient information as to the consignment and efficiencies of each technology, because of a rush to participate in a burgeoning renewable energy marketplace technology has been either misapplied or is of substandard quality. This has created a resistant and cynical consumer.
Hydro power has been used for several thousand years. Wooden water wheels were stationed on streams and rivers to provide mechanical power for processes such as the grinding of grain. By the end of the 17th century, it became the main source of mechanical power in Europe for various purposes such as paper-making, textiles, and iron working. Hydro power played an important role early in the Industrial Revolution. Technological developments, including highly-efficient water turbine designs and electric generators, during the 19th century, together with the growth in demand for electricity by the turn of the 20th century, led to hydroelectric power. The gravitational potential energy of the water due to the elevation drop (i.e. height difference, or head), is used by weirs (small overflow dams) and diversion type plants to generate power. The kinetic energy of fast rivers can be harnessed by kinetic energy devices.
Generally speaking, the best resource areas for diversion type schemes are located in mountainous area or those areas with high hills; for weir type schemes, the location of the energy source is on hills; for kinetic turbines, the location is on a plain.
