World's most powerful tidal turbine: Orbital 02

Engineering firm Orbital Marine Power has delivered its first O2 tidal turbine to Scotland's Orkney Islands, where it will connect to the grid and supply power to thousands of homes.

[andyaltman]

Is the O2 and tidal power the future of clean energy? Drop a 🌊 Below!

[MrJCMG]

I've been following the progress of the Scottish tidal renewable energy sector for about the last 10 years. It's amazing to finally see it get to this stage. It would make me so happy to see this up and running in Scotland and take potentially get us to a place where almost all energy production in Scotland was from a zero carbon, or low carbon source.

[wrliggin]

Really interesting video, but the CEO's audio was terrible and the music made it even harder to understand him.

[kb]

Key component in your story missing.. Power capacity?

[jeffrey]

The music is to loud when the people are talking. Give the feedback to your editor.

[aarohanbalasubramanian]

You guys should reduce the volume of the bgm and increase the dudes volume. Like I can barely hear anything unless I crank the volume up really high.

[RuudP]

The Idea is not New, even tested in the eighties. Big problem then was corrosion, sea water is a harsh environment

[Rahul-kpnh]

This is absolutely brilliant. Great work guys. God bless you all :)

[Highland_Moo]

I’m from the Scottish highlands and the fact we have so many massive wind turbines and only very little in the way of tidal power is sad. Where I live is next to the Isle of Skye and there’s a channel between it and the mainland where the tides race so very fast and strong….perfect! Anyway, it’s great to see the O2 do it’s thing and I hope to see many more around the world soon.

[andershjelmare]

99% of these very encouraging videos fail to mention any numbers for cost of investment, cost of ownership and maintenance and levelized cost of energy.

[TheParentalRevolution]

This looks expensive and delicate to me.

I like the wave energy solution that connects to land and shoots air at a turbine above the water. That seems like the most sturdy and cost effective. I forget the name of the company.

[HectorRoquentin]

The concept is amazing! The one questinom, can the helix hurt sea life?

[chrisstockton]

Great concept, sounds way more reliable as well. Solar panels break down way faster than I would assume that this would. Especially if they were able to use composites instead of steel to battle against deterioration

[Agakir]

Simple turbine effect is used for example in jet engine (plasma, fuel, gas, etc) more multilevel blades means more bidrectional power. Adding also hydrophobic coating if used under water. And so on, and so on.

[Getoffmycloud]

Visually more appealing than windmills that pollute the horizon.

[Mark_Nadams]

The O2 with two turbines is a good start to prove the technology. They need to ramp it up and make the future ships more productive. Put more turbines at key points front and rear to make the O6 with 6 turbines. Then add another length on each arm to get to the deeper currents and put turbines on them to make the O12 with twelve turbines.

[LeonRamkumar]

Orkney is a beautiful Island with incredible history. You really must visit.

[dancoffey]

The idea sounds great but the real information needed is the cost per kWh. Also, are the tides around Orkney exceptional? I.e. how widely applicable is it and what are the constraints on its use? If this information was supplied we might be able to answer your question

[alancapes]

The most important questions for transformative tech are: can it scale efficiently and TCO?

[gilbarros]

Great idea, clean project. With the Tide we go!