Tidal Energy Vessel Visits Maine

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.pddnet.com/news-tidal-energy-vessel-visits-maine-061611/

Tidal Energy Vessel Visits Maine

By The Associated Press
Thursday, June 16, 2011

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine-based tidal energy company brought a prototype underwater turbine the size of a school bus to the city's waterfront on the eve of an international ocean energy conference, and the company's president and CEO declared Monday that tidal energy's time has come.

At 46 feet long, Energy Tide 2 is described as the largest tidal energy turbine ever deployed in the U.S., and it underwent extensive testing last year off Maine's eastern tip.

http://www.oceanrenewablepower.com/home.htm">Ocean Renewable Power Co. is in the process of building a larger unit — about 90 feet long — that will be deployed this fall and connected to the Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. grid by year's end.

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Ocean Renewable's research vessel is essentially a barge loaded with electrical equipment and monitoring devices, and with the capability of raising and lowering the turbine unit.

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[Scuba]

1. Excellent. This is where we should be spending those billions we're giving to the oil dinosaurs.n/t

[bahrbearian]

2. I've be told this is a Hypothetical source of Power.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1191601#1192058

[bahrbearian]

3. Whidbey Is Washinton will start a Tidal Project this Fall

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/103752099.html