First Commercial Scale Tidal Energy Turbine Installed off of Ireland
A big step towards the future of tidal power has been taken. The SeaGen tidal energy converter, an upside-down-windmill structure weighing over 1000 tons, has been successfully set into the water off of Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough by parent company Marine Current Turbines. Will Northern Ireland become the “Saudi Arabia of marine energy”? Or will the curse of the Titanic strike another behemoth emerging from the Belford docks?…
April 13 2008 06:04 am | Environment
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