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Alstom Hydro, a huge energy company, has signed an agreement with Clean Current Power Systems of Canada to commercialize tidal power products by 2012. Ocean Power Magazine has the details, including: Tidal stream power technology presents numerous advantages to the…
Tidal and wave power remains a pricey way of creating power. The ocean is a rough place to site energy generation, and then there’s the question of getting the power to shore reliably. Salt, corrosion, and water turbulence takes a…
Several major tidal power projects are continuing. Sure, there are lots of technical hurdles, but if (and hopefully when) tidal power becomes a mature, dependable technology, we will have enormous amounts of renewable power at our disposal.
Photo credit Ifremer/Olivier Dugorna This new design from TidalStream for tidal power turbines claims to output up to 10MW per 6 turbine platform, substantially more than other designs. Plus, such power is generated completely silently and is not visible from…
Testing is underway in the U.K. on ‘Anaconda’, a giant rubber ‘snake’ that converts tidal wave energy to electricity. A full-sized Anaconda could reportedly power 1,000 homes. Planetizen has more. This is amazing stuff indeed.