Porous pine suits hydraulic turbine

摘要

A Norwegian company has begun installing a 1.5MW prototype tidal-energy plant featuring turbines constructed with wooden blades.rnHydra Tidal will moor the floating power plant - known as Morild - to the seabed of Gim-soystraumen marine channel in Nordland County.rnThe turbine blades, which are made of laminated pine, are a novelty for a modern turbine-blade design as wood has not been used for such an application for decades.