Ocean Energy: Tide and Tidal Power

✍ Scribed by Roger H. Charlier, Charles W. Finkl (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 capital intensive but smaller ones, particularly built in China, have proven profitable. Since the initiation of the St Malo project in France, similar projects have gone into active service where methods have been devised to cut down on costs, new types of turbines developed and cost competitiveness considerably improved. Tidal power has enormous potential. The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Poseidon to the Rescue: Mining the Sea for Energy—A Sustainable Extraction....Pages 1-27
Medieval Engineering that Lasted....Pages 29-64
The Riddle of the Tides....Pages 65-77
Dreams and Realities....Pages 79-102
The Anatomy of the Rance River TPP....Pages 103-118
Harnessing the Tides in America....Pages 119-124
Improvements, Adjustments, Developments....Pages 125-139
Current from Tidal Current....Pages 141-152
Environment and Economics....Pages 153-160
Back Matter....Pages 161-262

✦ Subjects

Oceanography; Renewable and Green Energy; Energy Economics; Economic Geology