Wave Energy – A new way of generating power from tides
The search for alternative energy sources in the age of climate change has overlooked tidal energy: a vast and unexploited worldwide resource. For three decades now, tidal lagoon schemes have been recommended as an economically and environmentally attractive alternative to tidal barrages. More recently, two proposals for tidal lagoons in Swansea Bay, Wales have emerged and there have been several reports documenting how such a project there could have the potential to harness significant energy resources. Tidal/wave energy involves constructing a barrage, a dam or some other sort of barrier to harvest power from the height difference between high and…