Western Scotland will see the world's largest tidal array constructed off the coast, as the first large-scale rollout of tidal energy generation.
A trial with one 30m turbine, the HS1000, anchored to the ocean floor in a fast-flowing channel near the Orkney Islands, raised one megawatt of electricity -- enough to power around 500 homes. Now, Scottish Power is planning on building two farms of turbines off the Scottish coast.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
Continue reading...Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/15/scottish-undersea-turbines
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