Photo: Courtesy of Ocean Power Technologies IncFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
Wave power and tidal power are still experimental, but may be little more than five years away from commercial development.
Three miles off the craggy, wave-crashing coastline near Humboldt Bay, Calif., deep ocean swells roll through a swath of ocean that is soon to be the site of the nation’s first major wave-power project.
Like other renewable energy technology, ocean power generated by waves, tidal currents, or steady offshore winds has been considered full of promise yet perennially years from reaching full-blown commercial development.
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