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Mull of Kintyre set to host CoRMaT tidal current turbine

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This may be a successful project or it may founder along with many previous attempts to design an energy generator able to survive the inhospitable sea. It isn’t difficult to see why wind power has survived. It’s simply the cheapest successful renewable energy source yet devised. Tidal generators don’t have to just survive, they have to produce power at a cost competitive with wind. You don’t have to look far to see that German and French companies are already buying up companies with potential to successfully produce power from the sea.

Posted date

3 Sep 2012

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3:51 pm

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