Can Underwater Turbines Solve Our Energy Problems?

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Be one of the first 500 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realengineering/ New streaming platform: https://watchnebula.com/ Vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx-g Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2825050&ty=h Facebook: http://facebook.com/realengineering1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianjamesmcmanus Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEngineering/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebrianmcmanus Discord: https://discord.gg/s8BhkmN Get your Real Engineering shirts at: https://standard.tv/collections/real-engineering Credits: Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus Writer: Eli Kintisch (https://www.elikintisch.com/) Editor: Dylan Hennessy/ Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster https://twitter.com/forgottentowel References A great deal of information in this video was found through phone interviews with Simec Atlantis engineers [1] 4,170 TW is annual US energy production (table 1.1 here) – US wave power potential is ~2000TW, according to this 2011 DOE report [2] https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/ocean/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwChk4S99i4 [4] Figure 9.6 and 9.7 on page 82 https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/MeyGen-2012-ES.pdf [5] https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/La_Rance_Tidal_

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