Ocean Energy Tide and Tidal Power /

• Main Authors: Charlier, Roger H. (Author), Finkl, Charles W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Renewable energy resources.; Economic geology.; Oceanography.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Energy industries.; Earth Sciences.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Energy Economics.; Economic Geology.

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 capit...

Table of Contents:

• Poseidon to the Rescue: Mining the Sea for Energy—A Sustainable Extraction
• Medieval Engineering that Lasted
• The Riddle of the Tides
• Dreams and Realities
• The Anatomy of the Rance River TPP
• Harnessing the Tides in America
• Improvements, Adjustments, Developments
• Current from Tidal Current
• Environment and Economics.