Tidal Power a Reality

updog writes "Here's an interesting story about a city in Norway using an underwater turbine to generate electricity. It doesn't produce much power (300kW) but maybe it'll pave the way for these types of power plants. Maybe one under the Golden Gate someday??"

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Nice but

[MichaelPenne]

it's too bad all these little clean energy projects can't somehow pool their resources into building a few orbital solar satellites.

Tidal power will no doubt make sense in some areas, esp. where political or cultural factors make the increased costs (over fossil or nuclear) palatable & the local coastal conditions are right.

But it seems a better long term solution would be to combine the money and the political will into orbital solar, which has the potential to be cheaper than fossil, cleaner than tidal/wind/ground based solar, etc., and reach just about everywhere on the planet with the same basic technology.

Re:I meant "imagine"

[Jucius Maximus]

"Great, so now I don't just look like a troll, I look like an uneducated troll...."

When you really think about the alternatives, I would prefer to be an uneducated troll as opposed to being an educated troll. The latter would mean that I was JohnKatz :-P