The largest tidal power system

by David Allen on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A British company has won the contract to build the world largest tidal power scheme in south Korea, costing around £500 million the system will make use of the fast flowing tides that will run through the filed of three hundred 60ft tall underwater turbines, which have been fixed to the sea bed.

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These turbines are simply dropped into place on the sea bed, which will take them well away from any shipping that use the area. The British company involved is Lunar Energy, they have partnered with the Korean company Midland Power Company. Once this project is completed sometime around 2015, there will be enough power produced to power up around 200,000 homes.

Source [Telegraph]

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Wow, this is awesome! I used to live in Korea so...

Missy

Korea? I hear it is a beautiful place, have not been. Maybe one day we will make the trip.

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max

Lol.. it's me Max.. :)

charles

I forget the source but a few months ago I was reading about a few projects that were in the planning stages on the East coast of the US. If my memory is correct they were looking at Northern Maine due to the large tidal changes. This might be a solution for all of the people that are opposed to coastal wind farms.

wolf nicolas

can you install one in haiti sea floor.?dicount for haiti

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