Radio Concentrate: Making Electricity Underwater
In the race to produce cheaper renewable energy, one U-M professor is looking to harness power from the Detroit River. His prototype, an experimental set of cylinders, shafts and magnets, will use the rise and fall of the water’s current to generate electricity. Chris McCarus has the story on Radio Concentrate’s downloadable podcast.
Electricity from underwater currents? A University of Michigan professor is in the process of perfecting experimental cylinders that will rise and fall with the current to generate power. And he plans to make them work in the Detroit River.
Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus reports.
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