Peter Fraenkel,
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* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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, is a
marine engineer, visiting professor at the
University of Edinburgh School of Engineering and a fellow of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the
Energy Institute. He is the inventor of the tidal power plant
SeaGen
SeaGen was the world's first large scale commercial tidal stream generator.
It was four times more powerful than any other tidal stream generator in the world at the time of installation.
It was successfully decommissioned by SIMEC Atlanti ...
.
In 2013, Fraenkel won the Scottish Government's
Saltire Prize
The Saltire Prize, named after the flag of Scotland, was the national award for advances in the commercial development of marine energy.
To be considered for the £10 million award, teams had to demonstrate, in Scottish waters, a commercially v ...
medal.
He is also the founder of the company Gravitricity, to exploit his concept of suspending heavy weights in abandoned mine shafts to store energy.
This promises to be half as expensive as large scale lithium batteries.
See also
*
Gravity battery
A gravity battery is a type of energy storage device that stores gravitational energy, the energy stored in an object resulting from a change in height due to gravity, also called potential energy. A gravity battery works by using excess energy ...
References
Living people
British marine engineers
Scottish mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people)
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