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Originally Posted by freebeard
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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It appears the scheme I was thinking of is tidal lagoon power. Apparently this is economically viable but for the very long ROI.
"Tidal pools[5] are independent enclosing barrages built on high level tidal estuary land that trap the high water and release it to generate power, single pool, around 3.3 W/m2."