Steve Smyth
Jul 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Tidal Power is not an ‘alternative’ energy source.

It is a gift of nature with infinite potential.

There are a lot of reasons why the energy of the tide has never been harnessed, ranging from bad designs to lack of basic understanding.

The idea that we can harness the tide to produce cheap electricity drives a lot of potential investors away, they just can’t get their heads around it.

It’s a solution so simple and obvious it can’t be real, just too good to be true.

Plus, the technology has only been around for a short time.

My design could not have been built twenty years ago.

Twenty years from now, undersea generators will be ubiquitous.

Starting with Shoreline Earth Generational Unit #001, my design will consistently produce 5Mw for less than $1 million per Mw.

Wind Power installations, after decades of research, development, and use in the field, still cost upwards of $1.5 million per Mw.

As SEGU develops, production costs will go down considerably.

Efficiency will increase rapidly.

SEGU will become an inexpensive, easily installed, plug and play power source for coastal locations around the world.

More importantly, the success of SEGU will stimulate further development in the field of tidal energy.

It won’t be long before people from every continent will recognize that the tide is the most powerful engine on Earth, an inexpensive source of perpetual energy, waiting to go to work.

I expect my early concepts to be obsolete within a few years, as fresh minds expand the idea, and improve the design.

Not only is the tide relentless, it’s growing stronger with sea level rise.

We would have to try hard to mess this one up.

We cannot over-utilize this natural resource.

No fuel is consumed, no pollution is produced, and there is no noise.

Unlike wind generators, SEGU sits silently on the sea bottom, out of sight, out of mind.

Think about it.

The most powerful engine on this planet surrounds us, ready to fulfill our energy needs, growing stronger by the day.

It’s time to develop a way to benefit from this awesome force.

Try this.

Steve Smyth

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