This talk, taped last Fall at the Woods Energy seminar, is Marine Energy Technology 101. It explains in simple terms the types of energy that we can harness from the ocean, and discusses the latest technologies in wave power extraction and tidal current devices.
I've since embarked on a tidal energy project in collaboration with Julie Young, a turbine and propeller engineer at Princeton University. We are planning to create a design optimization tool for tidal turbines, and our guess is they will look quite different from the tidal turbines you see in this talk. Will keep you posted!