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Assertion Supported
Schneider: Natel's hydro turbine blades achieve over 99% fish safety
“And those two things basically, you know, create a turbine blade that has now been shown many times over to be greater than 99% safe for fish passage.”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 46:31 How to build more hydropower
Insight
Schneider: Scaling hydro requires shifting from megaprojects to distributed projects
“The way in which we're going to increase capacity is, we firmly believe, A shift that moves away from just building megaprojects, and instead looks at building projects that are more distributed in nature, and, which means smaller by moving to smaller projects…”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 19:01 How to build more hydropower
Opinion
Schneider: High costs restrict hydrokinetic power to niche applications
“What we've generally seen is that hydrokinetic is, makes sense in very certain specific applications, but it's been hard to get costs to the point where it's as broadly applicable as we'd love it to be.”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 25:22 How to build more hydropower
Disclosure
Schneider: Natel Energy is considering hydro upgrade projects exceeding one gigawatt
“Probably the largest project we're contemplating right now would be over a gigawatt, where there's many you know, we're talking, you know, you're talking 10, a lot of these bigger hydro projects have, particularly the run of river ones, where again, you can ha…”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 47:21 How to build more hydropower
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