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...turn a wheel as the water ebbs. But the dream has always been to tap the power of the ocean itself - to harness the force of tides mighty enough to erode and shift entire coastlines. And so later this year a small South Wales company called Tidal Hydraulic Generators (THG) plans to lower a steel frame supporting five 6-m diameter turbines to the floor of the Severn Estuary. The tubes will translate the power of the tide as it ebbs and flows into one megawatt of electricity, enough to power about 500 homes. The project will be a test...
...energy here is absolutely astronomical - Richard Ayre, managing director, THG...
...could still be used to desalinate sea water and pump it ashore - a self-propelled water purifier. Babtie has already sent a team of engineers to the Middle East to discuss the possibilities of setting up tide-driven desalination plants. Ayre is expecting that once the technology is proven, THG could be supervising the construction of rigs to generate "many thousands of megawatts." But no one expects the new system to be entirely smooth sailing. As any boatsman knows, the moment something goes into seawater it starts corroding, and soon becomes covered in barnacles and weed. The THG engineers...
With Lauris Downey, Dianan Broden, Judy Carpentier and Sherry Lubbers pooling their efforts in thg 200-yd. medley relay, their time of 158.49 passed the previous record by three seconds...
Billy Smith's leg, held by metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...