news.bbc.co.uk - 11/6/2008
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BBC: A survey of the potential of the Pentland Firth and the sea around the Orkney islands to generate energy from tidal devices is to be carried out. Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is funding the work by Stromness-based company Aquatera. HIE said the results would ...
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Tuckey's Tidal Dreaming
Peak Energy —
... for Government funding this month and also hope to secure private investor funds to enable a turbine to be built and placed 90m deep off Sinclair Head on Wellington's south coast. ... Cook Strait was one of the most exceptional sources of tidal energy in the world because of the depth and width of the waterway, Mr Beach said. The 23km wide channel reaches 250m at its deepest. And up in the UK, interest in tidal power continues to grow, with the BBC reporting on a new survey of tidal power sites. A survey of the potential of the Pentland Firth and ...
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