03076nam a22005655i 4500 27374 27374 978-3-540-77932-2 DE-He213 20240716152126.0 a|||||o|||| 00| 0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2009 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783540779322 10.1007/978-3-540-77932-2 doi imu-kc GC1-1581 RBKC bicssc SCI052000 bisacsh RBKC thema 551.46 23 Charlier, R. H. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ocean Energy [electronic resource] : Tide and Tidal Power / by R. H. Charlier, Charles W. Finkl. 1st ed. 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009. XII, 262 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Poseidon to the Rescue: Mining the Sea for Energy—A Sustainable Extraction -- Medieval Engineering that Lasted -- The Riddle of the Tides -- Dreams and Realities -- The Anatomy of the Rance River TPP -- Harnessing the Tides in America -- Improvements, Adjustments, Developments -- Current from Tidal Current -- Environment and Economics. Engineers’ dreams and fossil energy replacement schemes can come true. Man has been tapping the energy of the sea to provide power for his industries for centuries. Tidal energy combined with that of waves and marine winds rank among those most successfully put the work. Large scale plants are capital intensive but smaller ones, particularly built in China, have proven profitable. Since the initiation of the St Malo project in France, similar projects have gone into active service where methods have been devised to cut down on costs, new types of turbines developed and cost competitiveness considerably improved. Tidal power has enormous potential. The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author. Oceanography. Renewable energy sources. Energy policy. Energy and state. Geology. Ocean Sciences. Renewable Energy. Energy Policy, Economics and Management. Geology. Finkl, Charles W. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783540870593 Printed edition: 9783642096754 Printed edition: 9783540779315 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77932-2 ddc EBK