| Breakthroughs on the Tide? |
| Written by A Siegel | ||
| Sunday, 29 July 2007 | ||
 These are the Best of Time and Worst of Times for EcoGeeks. We know that Global Warming is already wreaking havoc, that snipping our hair is likely to show mercury, that plastics just don't go away. But, boy, it is truly the best of times. One can't pause for a moment without seeming to miss yet another breakthrough, yet another exciting development. And always, more of these are moving from the lab to deployment.
While still advancing, wind power is almost becoming blase. Exciting that it's displacing coal, but once you've seen a 1000 windmills, after all. Until we start producing gigawatts of power, how else will they get exciting? Well, they could go underwater. One way to look at tidal, wave, and river water power generation is to look at it about a decade behind wind power. Just now moving from the lab into power generation with breakout potential just over the horizon. This month should see installation of one of those exciting tidal power generation systems, a 1.2 mw system to be be installed in Strangford Lough by SeaGen. After years of testing smaller turbines, this is a production level system that is going in the water. This is the last phase of testing and development before large scale installations can occur. There is a huge potential for inexpensive and predictable power by capturing tidal energy. Get ready for some massive growth in the industry.
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written by Marilyn Terrell , July 30, 2007
Exciting stuff! I didn't know this technology was so close to becoming reality.
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written by monotonehell , July 30, 2007
Won't someone think of the fish!!!???
Asking Politely
written by Dani , July 30, 2007
I have a little magazine and would love to feature some of the eco friendly technology for my october issue which will be all about global warming so i'm like borrowing some text from your web and translating them into spanish but will be adding the ecogeek address in the print version and the link in our web. If there's a problem with this please let me know.
cool but
written by Karadeniz gazete , July 30, 2007
I hope it'ıı work
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