Show Big BilI Projects on Foot for lor Harnessing Tides The feasibility of harnessing the tides at certain places is so well understood un un- understood that the French F government has under way a n project to develop a u horse horse power plant plank near Brest writes Henry Williams in the American Amen Ameri can Magazine England contemplates a development in the Severn estuary and und the state of Maine h has s ratified a n bill to develop tidal power in the bay of Fundy to c cost st OO which Is expected annually to produce produce produce pro pro- duce the equivalent of power from worth of coal In the tide reservoir system as con contemplated contemplated 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 some of the basin water Into hl higher her reservoirs to be used to operate other turbines as It flows b back H k again |