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2025 June It was reportedly reported that Norway had created and installed underwater turbines for energy production, which were friendly for maritime life.
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Rating: False
Context:
Circulation meme is mistakenly stated that these turbines existed in Norway. However, the country used to be a underwater turbine prototype. In addition, underwater tidal turbines are currently operating in Scotland.
2025 In late June and early July, rumors began to spread the Internet that Norway had installed friendly, underwater turbines, which “use energy from the ocean currents” for energy production.
For example, in the Facebook post, the EU angle page contained an image of supposed submerged turbines, each of which was drawn by the Norwegian flag (archived):
This post received 4,300 reactions and 2000 repeated. Title under the bottom read:
Deep under the North Sea, Norwegian engineers, contrary to what they had seen before, deployed a new turbine class. Instead of standing above the water in the wind, these massive structures sit under the waves, quietly rotating with powerful ocean currents. These turbines, known as Seaspinners, offer clean, 24-hour energy-and surprisingly gentle presence in the maritime ecosystem.
Each Seaspinner uses a spiral turbine construction – similar to corkscrews – which allows them to rotate regardless of the current direction. Established at the seabed, the turbine arrays rotate slowly, steadily, using the kinetic energy of deep -sea currents, which are more stable and predictable than the wind.
The same image and text appeared on other Facebook posts, including one on the Neil Degrasse Tyson page with 54,000 reactions and 10,000 shares.
Image clues revealed that they were probably created by artificial intelligence. For example, turbines did not always count the same number of blade. Some had three while others had four. The layout of each turbine blade was irregular without following the standard model. We were able to confirm that this was not a real picture through the AI detector.
Certainly, Snopes presented some other images posted on the AI detector posted on the ES Corner on Facebook, confirming that everyone was created.
In a long title, no company or government project responsible for these alleged turbines was not named after the image. In addition, the search for Google and Google News did not show that there was no reliable news store, not reporting such turbines on the Norwegian bank. For this reason, we kept a rumor false.
However, flood turbines, friendly to sea life, are not scientific fiction. 2003 A prototype of a three -blade underwater turbine was installed near the northernmost end of Norway. It began to produce energy in 2004, but was removed in 2012. The environmental audit revealed that the impact on sea life was minimal. This led to the installation of three more turbines, Pentland Firth, in the Strait in the north of Scotland.
In addition, Nova Innovation, based in Scotland, has developed such turbines in 2016. Started installing them from the Shetland Islands, according to a CNN video report. It was “the world’s first turbine flood array of sea. However, Nova Innovation turbines do not look like those that were circulating. They had only two blades, not three or four blades on each alleged Norwegian underwater turbine.
In addition, Norway has created a sea wind farm with one specificity: they float. The first world of its type in the world opens the possibility of further installation of three -blade wind turbines further from the shores at a deeper depth of the ocean:
Sources:
Equinor. Hywind Tamp. Www.equinor.comwww.equinor.com/energy/hywind-tetampen. Accepted 2025. July 3
“Kvalsund Flood turbine prototype | tethys”. Tethys.pnnl.govtethys.pnnl.gov/prect-sites/kvalsund-dalbine- prototype. Accepted 2025. July 3
Tethys. Meygen Flood Energy Project | Tethys. Tethys.pnnl.govtethys.pnnl.gov/prect-sites/meegen-ridal-energy-prect. Accepted 2025. July 3
“Done – Nova Innovation | World Leading Marine Energy | Flood energy – floating solar energy – sea renewable energy sources – green – ecology – sustainable | Edinburgh – Scotland – UK.” Nova Innovationnovainnovation.com/tidal-energy. Accepted 2025. July 3