Sentences with phrase «tidal flow create»

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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.

The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface global oceans and viscous processes affecting ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow ice to flow like honey (over long enough time periods).

Inspired by an early name for the Hudson River, the Muhheakantuck, or «river that flows two ways» — or, as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation puts it, a «tidal estuary, an arm of the sea where salty sea water meets fresh water running off the land» — members of the Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio proposed using both porous streets that can filter water and extending the lower part of the island to create a new Lower Manhattan that is part «twenty - first - century business district,» part «center of regional ecological renewal»:

However it doesn't just stay in one place, but moves rapidly in a figure of 8 pattern under the influence of a rudder and the tether and lift forces created by the tidal flow.