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Article: United States: Tidal turbines off Marrowstone proceed toward permits: Pilot project could locate three turbines in 2011 or 2012.
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- November 5, 2009
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Byline: deepak03
Plans are moving ahead to place a trio of underwater, tide-powered turbines on the sea floor one-third of a mile east of Marrowstone Island's Nodule Point.
A briefing held Oct. 22 in Port Townsend for federal, state and local regulators revealed details of the pilot project, which is being managed by the U.S. Navy based on a direct multi-million-dollar appropriation inserted by a group of congressmen into the 2009 defense budget.
The trio of turbines, each resembling squat versions of Eastern Washington's wind generators, would rise 36 feet up from the sea floor in 72 feet of water at a zero tide. The 4-ton turbines would be ...