Bob,

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:30:35 -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:

> Some time ago there was a large tide-power project in the Bay of
> Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada. My understanding was that it worked very
> well, but was mostly a "capture the water at high tide, generate 
> electricity at
> low tide (going out to sea) as well as high tide (coming in from sea)".
> 
> I don't know what happened to that project.

There's a location where they do this in France, and depending on the timing they use surplus electricity to 
pump water in and out at the high and low tides respectively, to increase the amount of stored energy for use 
at peak times.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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