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Show Big Projects on Foot for Harnessing Tides The feasibility of harnessing the tides at certain places. Is so well understood un-derstood that the French government has under way a project to develop a 5,000-borse power plant near Brest, writes Henry Williams, In the American Ameri-can Magazine. . England contemplates a $150,000,-000 $150,000,-000 development in the Severn estuary; and the state of Maine has ratified a bill fo develop tidal power In the bay of Fundy, to cost $100,000,-000, $100,000,-000, which Is expected annually to produce pro-duce the equivalent of power from $10,000,000 worth of coal. j.., Hue icu tun sitm as contemplated con-templated In. the bay of Fundy and elsewhere, the gates are shut after the water has flowed In, and power is gained by letting the water flow out, operating turbine wheels meanwhile, as the tide recedes. Part of the power thus gained may be used to pump some of the basin water into higher reservoirs, to be used to operate other turbines as it flows back again. |