Could environmental concerns kill off an environmentally friendly industry?

摘要

The marine energy industry has seen remarkable development since the first attempt in the UK to generate electricity from tidal stream power, by the lifelong exponent of renewable energy, Peter Fraenkel. In the 1990s, Peter successfully extracted power from a turbine mounted beneath a moored raft in Loch Linnhe, Scotland, and this experiment led to the deployment in 2008 of the 1.2MW SeaGen tidal turbine - the world's first marine energy power station.