The Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre in Dudley

We took a look around the VLRNIC to see what really goes on inside.

Transcript

00:00railway yeah we're at the very light railway innovation center in Dudley as you can see

00:05behind me it's a CVLR coming up the track this is the future you guys have a look

00:12it can go 50 kilometers without needing to be charged again

00:17and can have about 50 grams on seats i think

00:20very futuristic, very cool, very fast

00:28cool yeah it is quite cool thank you whoa should we just squeeze in just a quick

00:58i am CTO of TRIVA so rails like these all around the UK we can generate energy from these rails

01:11we will be able to get a huge amount of energy from those potential rails that's what we are

01:17doing we make TRIVA turbines we make we put these turbines on side of roads railways and highways

01:24so when fast moving transport passes by we'll be able to uh the moving airflow from those parts of

01:30transport will generate wind and drive our turbine to generate energy we'll be able to

01:36we will be able to power local infrastructure like lighting and also even charging stations

01:42our turbine has this especially special design way so that it has a twice the overall energy

01:50efficiency than the alternative on the market it has a very long lifetime so it would

01:58it is not expected to break anytime within 10 years and it has a rated lifetime of 15 years

02:06it has a protected maintenance system so we will be able to monitor all of its arm and

02:15uh see how many fatigue cycle it is going through and give it its maintenance where it's needed and

02:21when it's needed it has a very small land footprint compared to other renewable energy

02:29solutions like solar or the huge wind turbine which does not generate as much energy and

02:35is not as efficient as either so yeah that's uh that's our turbine we're putting our best effort

02:44to make the transport center green thank you so does this generate more energy than like the

02:50wind turbines that you see you know the regular ones did you say uh in terms of efficiency the

02:56in terms of efficiency we are higher uh we are a one kilowatt turbine like the one here obviously

03:03the train time and the train speed would affect this but if it's not on the side of the railway

03:12the turbine that's generating one kilowatt will be over 2.8 meters i see well it's very tall so

03:21yeah in terms of efficiency we are higher than thank you if we were obviously not able to compete

03:27with those huge offshore turbines like 100 meters tall yeah