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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Tidal Lagoon Power: Breakthrough Project Gains Momentum

Tidal Lagoon Power: Breakthrough Project Gains Momentum

By Pete Danko
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay
The tides are an enormous and consistent renewable energy resource, but taking advantage of them has proven frustrating. Newfangled minimal-impact in-stream devices have been slow to demonstrate their commercial viability; earlier “barrage” projects – dams on estuaries, essentially – have delivered energy as promised, but at the cost of degraded ecosystems. Now a potential solution

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