About Tidal and Wind Energy
Tidewind Inc. develops innovative power generation turbines that convert energy from marine tidal streams and wind by using a unidirectional rotation rotor design (patent pending) as the main rotating part of power turbines.
Marine tidal streams are a renewable source of power produced from the rise and fall of ocean or sea tides. There are several locations on the Earth that have regular high-speed currents that can be used to harvest the energy of large volumes of water moving four times each day without any pollution emissions.
Specially built hydro turbine generators (also called Tidal Energy Converters) can be placed in areas with a significant difference between high and low marine tides, which results in the movement of a large mass of seawater. The captured kinetic energy of moving water during flood and ebb currents can then be converted into electricity.
Marine tidal energy is a mostly untapped source of power generation that has several important advantages over the sun or wind power, because it is:
- ● regular, reliable, predictable
- ● not affected by the time of the day
- ● not affected by weather conditions
- ● not affected by seasons
- ● not affected by climate change, and
- ● not affecting the environment and safe for any form of marine life
Unfortunately, marine conditions are extremely harsh for power generation equipment and any underwater structures, and the implementation of tidal marine stream power generation systems requires high initial investment; high repair, service, and maintenance costs; and high cost of removal and utilization of tidal power generating systems at the end of their lifecycle.
Our wind power generation systems offer another option for implementing cost-effective small to medium-sized wind turbines that are especially effective in locations where:
- ● traditional wind turbines are too big or too difficult to deploy
- ● where prevailing winds can change their direction to 180 degrees
- ● where the force of wind can rapidly increase or decrease as weather conditions change, like in places close to the marine shores, between high mountains or islands.
