The well-known answer to this question is that it stops being a motor and becomes a generator. Instead of using electricity to turn a propeller and drive the vehicle along, the flow of water turns the ...

The City of Liverpool, England, has unveiled advanced proposals to build the world’s largest tidal power generator on the River Mersey. If it’s built, Mersey Tidal Power would become the largest tidal ...

The attraction of a tidal generator is that water has 800 times the density of air, so it contains 800 times the energy when in motion. That basic fact explains why tidal generators are attracting the ...

Lance McMullan tests an early prototype of his tidal generator in Juneau in October 2023. (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO) Inventor Lance McMullan has a beautiful house on Douglas Island. But he spends ...

LONDON - Time To ACT plc (AQSE:TTA) announced Friday that its subsidiary GreenSpur Wind Limited has entered into a design services contract with Severn Estuary Tidal Bar Ltd (SETB) to assess the ...

7 April 2008 – The UK government has gave permission for a prototype tidal stream generator which could power 70 000 homes. The prototype will be positioned off the south bank of the Humber at Upper ...

A Portland company hopes to have its 60-kilowatt underwater tidal generator in Cobscook Bay fully operational in August after conducting favorable beta tests, paving the way for a larger commercial ...

Chris Sauer was speaking at a 2007 energy conference in Anchorage, Alaska, about his ambitions to test a marine power generator in the massive tides of Cook Inlet when a participant asked if the ...

A major step forward in using the tidal power of the UK’s Humber estuary to generate electricity has been completed by Neptune Renewable Energy. The company said it produced power from its ...