Recently , Airborne Marine has announced the first two successfully manufactured 1-shot RTM Tidal blades with embedded insert technology for Nautricity. These first two blades are part of a series of seven 4 metre blades for the 250KW test turbine. Nautricity will make the Mull of Kintyre the first test site for its innovative CoRMaT tidal current turbine (TCT), with the testing phase expected to begin this summer and to be completed by March 2014. Here is a video of Nautricity’s chief executive Cameron Johnstone describing CoRMaT tidal turbine:
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Offshore WIND Staff, February 2013; Image: ATG Medialab