General Information
A form of hydropower that converts the energy from the natural rise and fall of the tides into electricity.
What is tidal power?
This is the most efficient tidal energy sources.
What are tidal barrages?
This man is an engineer and physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Who is Kétévi Assamagan?
Tidal power is attractive to electric grid management because it is this.
What is a predictable energy source?
A dam that utilizes the potential energy generated by the change of height from high and low tides.
What are tidal barrages?
This woman was known as a “human computer” for the work she did analyzing problems and making calculations by hand at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio.
Who is Annie Easley?
These can only be installed along coastlines.
What are tidal plants?
This is what the water flows through that compresses air and in turn creates electricity.
What are turbines?
He served as one of the five commissioners appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 2010 – 2014
Who is Bill Magwood?
Ocean water is this many times more dense than air.
What is 832 times?
Turbines that operate like giant turnstyles.
What are tidal fences?
This man was known as the Black Edison.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
The difference in water levels must be this high to produce electricity.
What is 5 meters?
Turbines will turn when the mechanical energy of tidal current which is connected to this.
What is a generator?
In 1989, this woman became Executive Vice President for Environmental and Public Affairs for the Minnesota Northern States Power Company.
Who is Hazel O'Leary?