{"id":1375,"date":"2015-09-21T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2015-09-21T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:51:08","slug":"tidal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/tidal-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidal Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, passing through the town of Annapolis, I saw a sign for a Tidal Power station, so we stopped in to take a look.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of only 5 tidal power stations in the world, according to the interpreter at the center.  It consists of a one-way turbine, and only generates power as the tide goes out.  When the tide comes in, they open other gates that let the water fill a basin above the turbine.  Then when the tide starts out it starts generating electricity again.<\/p>\n<p>At best it can put out 20 megawatts, but it varies by time of day and time of month.  Like solar and wind, it does not generating 100% of the time, but unlike those it is very predictable when it will be generating and how much it will put out at any given second.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a scale model of the turbine.  In the actual turbine, the diameter of the turbine blades is about 22 feet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/TidePower.jpg\" alt=\"Tidal Power\" width=500\/><\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t let us tour the actual turbine, so this model, views of the water coming out below and our imagination had to fill in the picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, passing through the town of Annapolis, I saw a sign for a Tidal Power station, so we stopped in to take a look. It is one of only 5 tidal power stations in the world, according to the interpreter at the center. It consists of a one-way turbine, and only generates power as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}