Canadian Company Waterotor has Designed New, Disruptive Clean Tech to Produce Low Cost Electricity from Slow Moving Water

Source: Robert Reiss · FORBES · | June 28, 2021

Waterotor CEO Fred Ferguson Leads in Clean Tech Innovation

Source: Fred Ferguson, Waterotor CEO being interviewed by Robert Reiss GAIL GITCHO

If you’re the relative of a world-famous technology innovator, how do you live up to that legacy? How do you follow that act? For Fred Ferguson, the great-great-grandson of telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, the answer was ambitious: revolutionize clean energy. By designing and patenting the Waterotor, a technology which is as economically disruptive as it is clean, he just may have changed the world’s energy landscape forever.

Mr. Ferguson is the CEO of Canadian-based Waterotor Energy Technologies, Inc., a hydrokinetic energy company whose mission is to harness the huge, untouched global sources of energy that exist in ocean currents, rivers and canals. With the Waterotor, slow moving water currents can provide electricity nearly everywhere.

Mr. Ferguson has led his team in the design and development of the Waterotor over the past 10 years in anticipation of a clean tech boom. The Waterotor is a new breakthrough technology that converts more than two thirds of the available energy to electricity when submerged in water flowing even as slowly as one mile per hour.

Mr. Ferguson said the Waterotor is now fully proven to operate in oceans, rivers, and even under ice without harming fish or the environment. “Innovation is an issue of problem solving,” he said. “We’ve created a new era of energy production; a core solution-technology that can be used virtually everywhere at a good value.”