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project, the Swansea Bay tidal project on down independently from one another to Carnegie Wave Energy Limited’s CETO technologies to streamline maintenance the coast of Wales. Swansea is likely to create energy. technology, which uses the motion of and transmission costs. cost $1.6 billion, and is entering the ? - In spite of all of this uncertainty fully submerged buoys to drive seabed “The best potential eventually might nal stages of government approval. The around design, Australia switched on its pump units. be a combination grouping different project will be a 4.4 square mile lagoon. Carnegie Perth Wave Energy Project in While offshore wind, tidal, and wave technologies,” Rogers said. “You could

When the tide rises, the lagoon will ? ll, February, which is now feeding energy energy all have enormous potential, it imagine an offshore wind farm that also turning turbines, and when the tide low- into HMAS Stirling, the largest naval may be that the future of offshore renew- has wave generators stationed around ers, the water would stay in the lagoon, base in Australia. The project deploys ables rests in the consolidation of these it.” before eventually being released, again turning the turbines.

Besides tidal barrages and lagoons, there are a great deal of tidal stream gen- erator designs that are both currently in the ? eld and under development. Many of these devices are different con? gura- tions of turbines that operate according to the same principles as wind turbines

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