02483nam a22004335i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137040001200172041000800184082001500192100007700207245006600284250001800350264008200368300003400450338002000484505034200504520082200846650001801668650003001686650001901716650002201735650001301757650002001770650002201790650004501812650001301857700007901870852000701949856004601956904001202002905001302014942000702027999001502034978-3-540-77932-2DE-He21320250131142734.0cr nn 008mamaa100301s2009    gw |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97835407793229978-3-540-77932-27 a10.1007/978-3-540-77932-22doi  aKObeng0 aeng04a551.462231 aCharlier, R. H.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aOcean Energyh[electronic resource] :bTide and Tidal Power /  a1st ed. 2009. 1aBerlin, Heidelberg :bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :bImprint: Springer,c2009.  aXII, 262 p.bonline resource.  aonline resource0 aPoseidon 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.  aEngineers' 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. 0aOceanography. 0aRenewable energy sources. 0aEnergy policy. 0aEnergy and state. 0aGeology.14aOcean Sciences.24aRenewable Energy.24aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management.24aGeology.1 aFinkl, Charles W.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut  aKO40uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77932-2  aRUDRA_R  aR_RANJAN  cEB  c3219d3219