Patent ID: 8400006

Claim:
A system for producing electricity hydrodynamically, comprising: a viaduct through which vehicles traverse, wherein the viaduct from multiple pairs of roadway spans, each roadway span including a latitudinal latch terminus, a longitudinal male latch terminus and a longitudinal female latch terminus, wherein a second roadway span of a second pair of roadway spans is supported by two columns from a second quartet of columns, a longitudinal male latch terminus of the second roadway span mating with a longitudinal female latch terminus of a first roadway span; and a hydrodynamic array configured to support the viaduct and further configured to generate electricity from the motion of ocean tides or river currents and forces acting on the hydrodynamic array, which is immersed in the ocean tides or river currents, and which is in motion relative to the ocean tides or river currents, where in the hydrodynamic array is formed from multiple hydrodynamic elements, wherein a hydrodynamic element includes a nested machinery chamber, the top of the nested machinery chamber defining a median span, wherein the median span includes first and second latitudinal latch termini, the first latitudinal latch terminus mating with the latitudinal latch terminus of a roadway span from a first pair of roadway spans, and the second latitudinal latch terminus mating with the latitudinal latch terminus of the remaining roadway span of the first pair of roadway spans.