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BRITAIN-ENVIRONMENT-WINDMILL
Artist-s impression dated 21 December 2005 of UK company Marine Current Turbines (MCT) SeaGen project which works, in principle, much like submerged windmills, but driven by flowing water rather than air. They can be installed in the sea at places with high tidal current velocities, or in places with fast enough continuous ocean currents, to create energy from these huge volumes of flowing water. These waterflows have the major advantage of being an energy resource which is almost as predictable as the tides that cause them, unlike wind or wave energy which respond to the more random quirks of the weather system. MCT received the approval by the Environment & Heritage Service in Northern Ireland to install its next generation tidal energy device, the 1000 kW SeaGen tidal energy turbine, in Northern Ireland-s Strangford Lough, a tidal estuary channel with considerable energy potential. MANDATORY CREDIT: MARINE CURRENT TURBINES TM LTD/AFP
Une installation marA©motrice originale de 1 MW -SeaGen prototype- est en cours de construction par la sociA©tA© britannique Marine Current Turbines Ltd. MANDATORY CREDIT: MARINE CURRENT TURBINES TM LTD/AFP
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Strangford Lough UNITED KINGDOM, 21 dec |
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2 Februarie 2006 |
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