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"La empresa belga Turbulent está apostando por usinas hidroeléctricas de pequeño porte para generar energía renovable con bajo impacto para el medio ambiente. En este sentido ellos desarrollaron una turbina de remolino que se puede instalar en ríos, arroyos y canales, aprovechando el agua corriente para generar energía para hasta sesenta casas. El objetivo de esta empresa belga es hacer la energía hidroeléctrica sostenible y aplicable a pequeña escala. A diferencia de las grandes represas, su turbina de baja presión requiere una diferencia de altura de tan solo un metro y medio para funcionar a toda capacidad. Probado en ríos en toda Bélgica, el dispositivo se puede ampliar para generar 15, 30 y hasta 100 kilovatios."

"Imagine you could use any kind of small head difference in a river or canal. The power those drops contain might surprise you. We created a technology that can make use of all these small waterfalls or rapids in a way that's safe for the environment. Gone are the days that communities had to choose between having power or fish to eat. Our robust and fish friendly vortex turbiness will generate energy 24/7 at an incredibly low cost of energy. That way you can have a project with high return on investment that improves the world just that little bit. Now, if you look at a river or canal, you'll notice that it's full of these small cascades, that's how nature builds rivers. We have created a distributed turbine system that can combines a large amount of turbines into one big virtual hydropower powerplant. These virtual hydropower plants can be as large as 10MW in power output. That's the power production of a small city! We can do this because our civil structures are designed to be easy to install, and the electronics and robust power take-offs are designed to keep working with minimal maintenance. The energy produced can be directly connected to your appliances or machinery, and at the same time connected to the national distribution grid, so you can inject the unused power to it, maximizing the revenue through a net billing connection."