By Jijo Malayil , Interesting Engineering.  Excerpt: One of the most powerful underwater tide-riding turbine projects has secured funding from the European Union’s Innovation Fund. NH1 project by tidal energy developer Normandie Hydroliennes in France has been granted €31.3 million in funding from the European Union’s 2023 Innovation Fund. The grant will fast-track NH1, one of France’s first commercial tidal energy pilots, boosting marine renewables. The project aims to install four horizontal-axis turbines in Normandy, delivering 34 GWh annually to the French grid by 2028....  Full article at https://interestingengineering.com/energy/underwater-tide-riding-turbines-project-funding-boost .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2021/cop26-scotland-wave-energy-renewables/ By  William Booth , The Washington Post.  Excerpt: ...The tides turn. You can set your watch to them. The trick is how to generate cost-effective, renewable electricity from that limitless, ceaseless motion. They’re working on the problem here on Scotland’s Orkney Islands. When you first look at the ideas for ocean-energy devices, the whole thing does look a little …  sci-fi.  Underwater corkscrews. Oscillating hydrofoils. Tidal kites? In Scotland, they want to plug this ocean energy into shoreside electrolyzers, which separate water (good old H 2 0) into oxygen and green hydrogen, and use the gas bubbles to power …  whisky distilleries . And maybe someday to heat homes and schools — and power passenger ferries and planes that hop between islands.…

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/us/florida-keys-flooding-king-tide.html Source:  By Patricia Mazzei, The New York Times. Excerpt: A brutal “king tides” season made worse by climate change has flooded the streets of a Florida Keys community for nearly three months. ... For nearly three months, the residents of Stillwright Point’s 215 homes have been forced to carefully plan their outings and find temporary workarounds to deal with the smelly, stagnant water — a result not of rain, but a rising sea — that makes their mangrove-lined streets look more like canals. Another Key Largo neighborhood, Twin Lakes, is similarly inundated. Scientists say a combination of factors, including disruptive hurricanes, have contributed to this year’s exceptionally high tides. “King tides” take place predictably each fall, when the alignment of the moon, sun and Earth creates a stronger gravitational pull on the warm oceans. Rising sea levels caused by climate change make the flooding worse. ......