Proposal to construct dike across Gulf of Kutch between Jamnagar and Mandvi.

Great Idea Sirjee. I do agree with Tanmay, forward it to concern ministry.

Sir Paul, your idea is majestic. I wrote about the unstructured coast line developments based on an NDTV report, at toostep today. I hope you might have read it as well. We truly need people and authorities to get constructive. The idea like yours should be given to concerned ministry. Govt. officials should involve authorities and some education institute specializing in the field and create feasible reports. If the govt. starts considering these projects, unemployment, drinking water shortage, electricity shortage, economy all will get uplifted by themselves. I suggest you to write to "Ministry of new and renewable energy" i.e "http://mnes.nic.in/" under citizen point. I wish they consider it and you write more articles of the sort.

Source of energy from sea tides in Gulf of Kutch. With very modest Tide levels that can provide a usable water head of two meters,  1200 MW Electrical energy could be generated per day.

By constructing a dike across the the Gulf of Kutch between Jamnagar and Mandvi,  it is possible to develop 1000 sq. kms (50Km x 20km)catchments area.  With a very modest assumption of useable water head of 2 Meters during each up tide and down tide, it is possible to use a volume of approximately 2 billion cubic meters for driving large number of turbines in the tunnes in the dike wall. 

Input mecanical energy required to run a 1 Mega watt Generator;

RPM needed for the Generators to generate 50 Hz power  = 3000 RPM 
Coupling ratio between Generator shaft and Water turbine shat =  10:1
Regulated RPM of Water turbine shat at 10:1 ratio = 300 RPM = 5 Revolution per second.(RPS)              

Energy from Water flow required to run the turbine.

Diameter of the tunnel and turbine = 10 Mtrs. 
Number of revolution of turbine shaft per second   =  5 RPS
Speed of water flow required in the tunnel to rotate turbine fan at 5 rotations per second = 950 cubic meter/second.
Water flow required in the turbine for one hour operation    =  3.42 Million Cubic Mtrs
Water storage required in the catchment area for 6 hours operation at every tide per turbine = 20.52 Million cubic meters

Number of turbines that can be operated with 2 billion Cubic Meter water flow  =  100 turbines 6 hours

Energy Generation by 100 generators of 1 Mega watt capacity in 6 hours (during each tide) = 600 Mega watts 

Energy that can be delivered in 12 hours with 100 generators in the dike  =  1200 MW 

Electrical power canalso be generated with Wind Power Machines installed on the dike: About 500 to 1000 wind machines can be installed on the dike that can generate huge amount of power and supplement the hydel system during the null period in between tides.

Thinking beyond. Mr. Paul. We have so many excellent ideas to share with the government but unfortunately the government culture is so closed to review anything new and proposed by the public, we in toostep should work hard to change this culture. Then sure we will be able realize our dreams.

Great idea Mr. Paul...appreciate your other posts also on the same line...thanks for the referral

Great idea...there they also can use that "Pawan chkki" model to generate electricity from water and wind pressure....