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Fri 05 May 2010Tapping the power tides provide
SOLAR ENERGY:TWO COMPANIES, one based in California and another based in Switzerland, are competing to develop artificial islands delivering zero-carbon solar power and other useful outputs such as clean drinking water.
Californian start-up GreenFix’s floating islands use solar thermal devices and ocean thermal energy- conversion technology.
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