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Ocean Energy: Tide and Tidal Power

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2009
ISBN
3540779310, 978-3-540-77931-5, 978-3-540-77932-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-77932-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20021216 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
262\270
Topic
Technique Energy
Library
Kingdwarf
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

Engineers’ dreams and fossil energy replacement schemes can come true. Man has been tapping the energy of the sea to provide power for his industries for centuries. Tidal energy combined with that of waves and marine winds rank among those most successfully put the work. Large scale plants are capital intensive but smaller ones, particularly built in China, have proven profitable. Since the initiation of the St Malo project in France, similar projects have gone into active service where methods have been devised to cut down on costs, new types of turbines developed and cost competitiveness considerably improved. Tidal power has enormous potential. The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author.

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