Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Tidal Energy

Working on Osher Climate Class 3, I came upon this fascinating web page (title link). Since I know I only have time to cover a small portion of this topic, I wanted to make this information available now.

Two advantages of tidal power versus wind or waves are one, it is very predictable, and two, it is normally located close to shore, so transmission is much easier. Also see this link about East River, NY plans.

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