Via BBC World News, britain is proposing to generate up to one fifth of their energy needs from ocean power. Sea energy 'could help power UK' I don't know anything about the economics but it does sound interesting.
The Carbon Trust, which helps firms develop low-emission technologies, urges the government to increase support for wave and tidal concepts.
They are currently costly ways of generating electricity but the Trust's report says prices will come down.
Investment now could help Britain establish a global lead in these technologies, it says.
In its 18-month research programme the Trust has looked at wave and tidal stream generation, leaving out other approaches to tidal power such as barrages which it describes as "mature".
Of course fundy Blair's government hasn't bitten yet- I guess he's waiting for the rapture to solve britain's energy problems. Just think, if Kerry were our president, we too might be exploring alternative energy technologies.
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