Harnessing Maine's Ocean Power. Posted by Jerry Harkavy, AP, September 6, 2008. "Workers spent the past winter tinkering with high-tech turbines slung beneath a barge in the cold waters off the Maine coast before getting them to produce a modest 20 kilowatts, enough electricity to power a half-dozen homes. Far from discouraged, Ocean Renewable Power Co. is spending the summer preparing to deploy larger turbines capable of producing up to five megawatts, enough electricity to power 5,000 houses. Eventually, the company envisions producing enough electricity to power 22,000 homes by harnessing the power of Passamaquoddy Bay, where twice each day the tide rises and falls upward of six metres, the greatest tide change in the continental United States."
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