But instead the company’s “high-intensity” hydro project uses a mineral-rich fluid, which has more than two and a half times the density of water, to create the same amount of electricity from slopes that are less than half as high.
Stephen Crosher, the chief executive of RheEnergise, said the government-backed project was able to consistently meet its goal of generating 500 kilowatts, or enough electricity to power 400 homes for a year if run continually, in a vote of confidence for the technology as the company prepared to build commercial-scale projects around the world.