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This always makes me wonder... the tide has to be one of the biggest sources of free kinetic energy, cycled daily. I can picture a hundred different ways to tap it for free energy. Why aren't we doing it?
Salt water is a bitch. It will corrode though everything, especially moving parts. It's not that we couldn't do it, but the maintenance cost makes it unattractive.