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Old 09-12-2024, 02:05 AM   #5 (permalink)
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There're various strategies. A dam at a cove is a tidal barrage.

Not really Moon power, but at the Strait of Gibraltar, there is a pulsing one way flow driven by evaporation in the Mediterranean Sea; with a counterflow in the depths. I can't find a reference but there was a proposal to use a horizontal sheet separator and extract electricity directly from the differing salinity of the two bodies of water,

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... the thing I like about tidal power is it's completely calculable and dependable.
You can set your calendar by it.
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