Small Hydropower Plant With Archimedes Screw Turbine (IMAGE)

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Small Hydropower Plant With Archimedes Screw Turbine

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PNNL is partnering with Percheron Power, LLC, to help the Kennewick, Wash.-based small business make hydropower cheaper. PNNL is helping Percheron evaluate using composite instead of steel to make screw-shaped turbines called Archimedes Hydrodynamic Screw turbines, which enable hydropower generation in small waterways. Shown here is a steel Archimedes turbine at a hydropower plant in Goryn, Poland.

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Pesymista, via Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_turbine#/media/File:Turbina_Archimedesa_MEW_Goryn.jpg

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