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Verdant Applies to Build the United States' First Tidal Power Plant

January 5, 2011 by Nathanael Baker
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In the United States' quest to become a new energy powerhouse, marine energy has been low on the Obama Administration's cleantech priority list.  However, with ever-improving technology capable of more-efficiently capturing the power of moving water, marine energy could very well see a spike in interest from the government as... [read more]

Tidal Power - Turbines Even a Kennedy Could Love

April 6, 2008 by Tim Hurst
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A narrow channel in Northern Ireland with notoriously strong marine currents is just a little closer to producing electricity with the world's first commercial-scale tidal power turbines. As was reported a couple weeks back by Maria Surma Manka at CleanTechnica, the massive structure, known as SeaGen, began its journey to the turbulent... [read more]