Energy Science Peace Initiative (ESPI), a US charitable organization, conducted a successful sea trial of its US-patented electric sea turbine at Sandy Ground on February 15, 2019. This first, V1 version, small-scale prototype, successfully generated electricity under various conditions and speeds, providing confirmation of the engineering design and assembly methods used to build it. Output test results, and performance information collected from the turbine, will be analyzed to provide design and performance output improvements in the V2 version of the turbine, tentatively scheduled for testing late 2019 or early 2020.
ESPI is pursuing the development of this sea turbine because it believes the oceans of earth are the largest storehouse of readily-available energy on the planet – greater than oil , wind, solar and geothermal. This energy, called kinetic energy, is the energy in the moving water and it is ESPI’s belief that this kinetic energy is capable of supplying most of our energy needs. ESPI uses the example that a section of the sea only one half mile wide, 20 feet deep, moving at about 4 mph, has as much available kinetic energy as the 24 megawatts the Anglec power plant in Anguilla can generate at full capacity. The ESPI sea turbine is designed to capture that kinetic energy from the moving sea.
Once full sea turbine development is complete, it is ESPI’s goal to improve the lives of the less fortunate people around the world. It plans to accomplish this by pairing the sea turbine with a seawater osmosis plant and provide, at no cost to the recipients, adequate fresh water for human consumption, agricultural irrigation and sanitation, as well as some free electricity for small industry. To receive this benefit, recipients need only pledge themselves to non-violence and pledge to use their best efforts to educate themselves and their children in the sciences.
ESPI wishes to express its deep gratitude to the following individuals for their contributions to the successful sea trials:
Gary Richardson (Gotcha Charters), Douglas Carty (Special D Diving and Charters), Colin Carty (Lady Celestia), Sherrilyn Hodge (ESPI Director), Dennis Sheehan (ESPI Director), G. Curtis Harris (ESPI Director), Patrick Balfour (design & construction), Joann Balfour (construction), Michael Thompson of Norman, Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma Innovation Hub (3D printing and design), and Trenton Turner of Norman, Oklahoma (3D printing).
