Sentences with phrase «from tidal currents»

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The waves where the bottom shoals suddenly between Chimon and Ram islands (when the tidal current is at maximum strength) look very big from a little boat in the sea.

The tidal forces from Earth could cause moons to slowly migrate outwards (the current Moon is slowly doing that at a pace of about 1 cm a year).

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, just off the coast of Maine, a tidal power system built and operated by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) draws energy from currents created as 100 billion tons of water flow into and out of the bay.

Her current focus is on the effects of anthropogenic sound on the physiology and behavior of fish, substantial contributions to the field on barotrauma (tissue damage) response assessment of fish from pile driving, navy sonar, and tidal turbine noise.

Langebaan Lagoon extends in a finger of water away from Saldanha Bay, its 16 kilometres controlled by tidal currents, tailing off into salt marshes and a cluster of salt pans, rich with water bird life.

Wave and tidal currents are not a problem, but power boats from local resorts use this passage because it is the only cut in the western limb of the atoll.

The open wells from the shelves meeting deep waters bring nutrients to the surface and the combination creates strong north and south tidal currents.

But we recently met a startup called Hydrovolts (formerly Puget Sound Tidal Power, or PSTP) which is taking the tidal turbine technology down a notch to generate electricity from the currents found in rivers, and caTidal Power, or PSTP) which is taking the tidal turbine technology down a notch to generate electricity from the currents found in rivers, and catidal turbine technology down a notch to generate electricity from the currents found in rivers, and canals.

Ranging from small - scale turbine units on the sea floor to large - scale turbines on vertical towers or suspended from boats, tidal current exploitation technology is still very much in the infant stage of development.

Mechanical energy derived from tidal movement, wave motion or ocean current and exploited for electricity generation.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

Yet an anticipated influx of new residents will further strain existing energy sources, so city and state officials gave Verdant about $ 3 million to harness power from the river's strong tidal currents.

Wave energy is developing rapidly, but perhaps not quite so rapidly as tidal - current systems - in part since it's harder to develop devices that can extract energy from the chaotic multi-vectored energy pattern that exists at the interface of the sea and the air, than from the smooth laminar tidal flows further down.

As defined by NFIP, it is a temporary or general condition of partial or complete inundation of two or more acres of normally dry land from: mudflow, overflow of inland or tidal waters, unusual or rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source, and a collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or other similar body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels.