Tidal power has always been one of those renewable energy ideas that sounds brilliant in theory—predictable, clean, and totally unaffected by weather. But the ocean is a tough place to build anything, ...

Submerged in about 40 metres of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity. It is a mark of durability that ...

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Minesto, a marine energy technology developer based in Sweden, is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for deploying the first operational, megawatt-scale tidal energy kite in the Faroe Islands.

Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that ...

In this October 2018 photo provided by MeyGen, tidal turbines are visible at the MeyGen tidal site located in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, a narrow channel of water between the Scottish ...