Over the period where the two datasets overlap, there is good agreement between sedimentary records and
tidal gauge
data (Donnelly 2004, Gehrels 2006).
Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and
tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million
over their lifetimes, according to BNEF
data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustralia.
Therefore,
tidal datums are superior at measuring relative to the (local) coastline and local sea level, and geoid - based vertical
datums are superior at measuring heights consistently
over large areas including both ocean and land.