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How Do We Generate Electricity From Body of Water?

Tidal is working. There are early machines in the north of scotland that are generating on to the grin right now. A recent scientific publication estimated that if we develop it, we could get about ten % of the country's current lectricity needs just from tidal stream energy. Wave is still very experimental and is a bit further off. So after much deliberation, i think the best way of demonstrating how these three potentially big players can work is to run a bath. Let's try and get some then. Alll right, it's not a great seal, but i think i've got some. Back and forth. Here we go. Tats co require a little bit

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