Cities Eye Ocean Waves for Power Supplies

Cities Eye Ocean Waves for Power Supplies
Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:46 AM ET
By Leonard Anderson and Timothy Gardner

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Since ancient times poets have revered the power of the seas. Now energy companies and coastal cities like New York and San Francisco are aiming to tap ocean waves and tidal currents as abundant sources of electricity.

Whether captured by big buoys bobbing on sea swells, or by submerged turbines spinning with the ebb and flow of the tides, the energy potential of moving water, or marine power, is beginning to turn heads in the energy world.

Reuters