ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In the quest for oil-free power, a handfulof small companies are staking claims on the boundless energy of therising and ebbing sea.
The technology that would draw energy from ocean tides to keeplight bulbs and laptops aglow is largely untested, but several newlyminted companies are reserving tracts of water from Alaska's CookInlet to Manhattan's East River in the belief that such sites couldbecome profitable sources of electricity.
The trickle of interest began two years ago, said Celeste Miller,spokeswoman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The agencyissues permits that give companies exclusive rights to study thetidal sites. Permit …
Tidal energy companies staking claims on coastANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In the quest for oil-free power, a handfulof small companies are staking claims on the boundless energy of therising and ebbing sea.
The technology that would draw energy from ocean tides to keeplight bulbs and laptops aglow is largely untested, but several newlyminted companies are reserving tracts of water from Alaska's CookInlet to Manhattan's East River in the belief that such sites couldbecome profitable sources of electricity.
The trickle of interest began two years ago, said Celeste Miller,spokeswoman for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The agencyissues permits that give companies exclusive rights to study thetidal sites. Permit …
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