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Imagine This: During each 12-hour tidal cycle, 100 billion tonnes of seawater flow in and out of the Bay of Fundy — more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers.
Photo courtesy of Nova Scotia Power.
Acadia University’s tidal energy pioneers of the early 1900s had big dreams and plans for harnessing energy from the nearby Bay of Fundy, home of the world’s highest tides. A century later, the rapidly growing tidal energy industry is ready to test exciting new technologies at the world’s best tidal energy site.
Deployed in the Bay of Fundy, 2009–10
Clarkson proposal for harnessing Fundy tidal energy, ca. 1915
Dr. Anna Redden, Associate Professor in Biology, Director of the Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research, and Acadia graduate, Class of ’79, is leading research efforts into the environmental impacts of tidal energy developments in the Bay of Fundy.
Sketch courtesy of the Acadia University Archives.
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The research conducted by our students and faculty is focused on big and important questions in relation to tidal energy developments. What are the environmental impacts? How much energy is available? How much can we safely extract? The work we are doing is innovative, exciting, and located at one of the only places where it can be done — Acadia University.
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