Electric Power Generation by Wiggling Plastic at River Bottom - Part-1

For hundreds of years, human being has been making dams on rivers and streams to grind grain. They have been using it to generate electricity also. Scientists are going to make a new and more distinctive form of freshwater power. It will make its debut in Vandergrift, Penn which is also known as old steel town.
They will produce it by making use of grid of electricity-generating materials. They will establish them at bottom of Kiskiminetas River. It will be having full scheme of energy conservation efforts. Vandergrift is likely to fulfill almost 20 to 40 percent of city center's electric power needs.
Vandergrift will be a model green town. This was stated by Lisa Weiland - scientist at University of Pittsburgh. She was part of the team working on this project. Vandergrift is situated at north-east of Pittsburgh. Until now it was said to be model steel town but presently, as Weiland tells, it is making over itself and trying for sustainability.
That sustainable power will probably be generated from a grid of rolling strips. These strips will be constructed of polyvinylidene fluoride or PVDF. This is a material that produces a slight electrical current and generates the power when moved by currents and whirlpools produced in Kiskiminetas River. These materials are named as piezoelectric. By this mechanism would be passed towards small substations. It will move along river's edge before charging number of batteries arranged in a single unit form.
Weiland told that there are some many other materials also that can work in a better form. They can produce higher energy densities. But we want to endure loss of a little power to keep ecosystem functioning.
Kiskiminetas River is widely known by a name of Kiski. It is about 40 yards broad when it crosses Vandergrift. Weiland presently decides to lay a grid having width of 30 yards and length of approximately a mile. It is planned to establish it down on the river bed to help supply power to the city. Exact details are not currently available. More information is yet to come about density of the grid, length of PVDF strips and time to lay down the grid. Research work is going on these aspects.