Michael Perry

Michael Perry is an Australian inventor who created the Aquanator, a small scale tidal power device that uses rows of hydrofoils to generate electricity from water currents. The Aquanator was announced in 2004, a contract to test it was signed with Country Energy on 26 September 2004, and in 2006 the test device was connected to the national grid. The test device had a capacity of 5 kilowatts and was intended to generate power even from a small flow of 1.5 knots; its slow moving hydrofoil design was meant to provide a green energy source that would not harm ocean life as faster moving turbines might.