Show Big Projects on Foot lor Harnessing Tides The feasibility of harnessIng the tides at certain places Is so well understood un- un that the government has under way a project to develop a horse power plant near Brest writes Henry WillIams In the American Ameri- Ameri can Magazine England contemplates a de In the Severn estuary the state of MaIne has ratified a to develop tidal power In the bay ot Fundy to cost which Is expected to produce pro pro- duce the equivalent of power from worth ot coal In tide reserVoir system as con con- in the bay of Fundy and elsewhere the gates are shut after the water has flowed In and power Is by letting water out operating turbine wheels meanwhile as the tide recedes Part of the power 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 |