Isle of Wight Section of Solent Network
Forthcoming Meeting
Marine Current Turbines
by Martin Wright, MD, Marine Current Turbines Limited
Thursday 30th October 2008 at 7.30pm
Where: Quay Arts, Sea Street, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight PO30 5BD
To find out more . . .
Order of events:
19:00 Networking opportunity, tea and coffee (and pay bar) available
19:30 Lecture
The IET Isle of Wight Section is pleased to host this lecture which will provide an overview of new technologies being developed by Marine Current Turbines (MCT) for exploiting tidal currents for large-scale power generation. Marine Current Turbines work much like submerged windmills, but are driven by flowing water rather than air. They can be installed in the sea at places with high tidal current velocities, or in places with fast enough continuous ocean currents, to take out copious quantities of energy from these huge volumes of flowing water. The technology being deployed by MCT, known as “SeaGen” consists of twin axial flow rotors of 15m to 20m in diameter, each driving a generator via a gearbox much like a hydro-electric turbine or a wind turbine.
Registration for this event is encouraged and can be done at:
http://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=548fbd
Information on future events organised by the Solent Network, both local and mainland can be found at: http://www.theiet.org/Solent/
For any additional information please contact the committee at IsleOfWight@theiet.org.
