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...method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; at Sudbury on the Severn, Eng. .and at Aber-Vrach on the Brittany coast. At all three places there are long, narrow estuaries, into which tides rush with enormous energy. Water turbines, set in dams built across these arms of the sea, will whirl as the tides rush through them; and electricity will be produced. Thus progresses the ageless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Power | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Mais, non. Impossible!" "Aber ja, das ist wirklich wahr!" screamed the French and Germans at each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: German or French? | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

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