First Tidal Power Plant Begins Operation
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Physics, Physicists, Earth Sciences, Energy, Fuel, Power Sources
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: France
- Date: 1966
Article abstract: Électricité de France operated the world’s first large tidal power station on November 26, 1966.
Tidal Energy
Ocean tides have long been harnessed to perform useful work. Ancient Greeks, Romans, and medieval Europeans all left records and ruins of tidal mills, and Mariano di Jacopo included tidal power in his treatise De Ingeneis (1433; on engines). Some mills consisted of water wheels suspended in tidal currents, others lifted weights that powered machinery as they fell, and still others trapped the high tide to run a...
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