Engineering360: "Expanding Low Cost, Low Head Hydropower"

Everybody seems to be getting on the hydrokinetic band wagon these days.

It's $/life cycle watt, and you can only get so much by tweaking the physics.

The mother lode of hydrokinetics lies off the east coast of southern Florida, at least a dozen Amazon River's worth. This (the Gulf Stream) is where the DOE Office of Science needs to put its money.

As much as I'd prefer to be in Florida its low head resources are dwarfed by Maine's thousands of miles of coast line, including tidal rivers and islands; sites that have been developed some for centuries, and 11 foot tides. If you need a test site we have plenty, and a few FERC permits available as well.