I’m an ocean technologist here at Force
also known as the Fundy ocean Research
Center for Energy
basically the turbines are very similar
to a windmill so our tidal stream
turbines here are the same sort of idea
they go in the water the tide rushes by
it spins the turbine blades which turns
a rotor which turns a generator which
produces electricity
the Bay of fun day has the highest tides
in the world and here in the mind is
passage at 14 billion tons of water flow
past year every day at its peak it flows
by at about 20 kilometers per hour and
from high tide to low tide it rises and
falls to the equivalent about a
five-story building
you know here at the foresight we have
subsea cables that are directly
connected to our electricity grid one of
our developers has a turbine that looks
literally like water wheel sits on the
surface another turbine which almost
looks like an airplane that sits on the
surface with two propellers to the left
and right and then there’s there’s also
bottom mounted turbines turbines that
sit on the bottom of the ocean as well
in the future we hope to have many
turbines here a site and rare problems
driving down that uh fossil fuel portion
of our electricity grid here in Nova
Scotia as a country as a province we’re
trying to move towards more of a
renewable energy grid for you know to
try to reduce our emissions that are
contributing to climate change if we can
domesticate our energy here in Nova
Scotia it’ll be the economic benefit
there as well there’s enough potential
energy flowing past here in the tides
every single day here in the finest
passage that could power up to two
million homes so obviously that’s a
scenario where there’s turbines using
the whole resource that would never
happen but it demonstrates how much
potential there is and how much power
there is so if we can even take one
percent of that we’d be powering a large
portion of our population here
so the work we’re doing here at force is
important to working towards solutions
for the climate change issue producing
energy here at home so we don’t need to
import dirty fossil fuels and coal and
that sort of thing so the work we’re
doing here at Forest is very important
here in Nova Scotia we have the tallest
tides in the world so you know this
resource is very important for our
potential removable Energy Future
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