The Rance plant in France is powered by the tides for more than 30 years...
240 MW maximum capacity (600 millions kWh per year, 68 MW actual capacity)
Very nice piece of french "ingenierie", like the concorde (OK half french, half british...).
Major drawbacks : expensive to build (1 billion $), big impact on the environment.
Some propaganda about it, by the french electricity company (Electricite de France)
http://www.edf.fr/html/en/decouvertes/voyage/
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This kind of satellite mapping has been available here in France for several cities for more than a year on mappy.com :
http://www.mappy.com/PlanPerso/mx17f/0
Click on the icon named "transparence" on the upper left corner of the map. (Or use the union jack flag if you want the page in english too)
What's amazing is that google did that for the entire US. Talk about time and money here...
[BTW : Now you know where I live in...]
this is actually quite old
En effet..
The Rance plant in France is powered by the tides for more than 30 years...
240 MW maximum capacity (600 millions kWh per year, 68 MW actual capacity)
Very nice piece of french "ingenierie", like the concorde (OK half french, half british...).
Major drawbacks : expensive to build (1 billion $), big impact on the environment.
Some propaganda about it, by the french electricity company (Electricite de France) http://www.edf.fr/html/en/decouvertes/voyage/