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This tidal stream concept is designed for deep water, such as the 60m deep Pentland Firth - too deep to economically mount turbines rigidly to the seabed and too rough for surface floaters to survive. Instead, the turbines are mounted on semi-submersible spar buoys tethered to the seabed gravity anchorages by swing-arms.

A key feature is that the turbines use technology and components developed from the wind industry, that already exist and that have been developed over the last 20 years. It is only the support structure that is truly new and innovative.

This site explains the resource available, the principles of the turbines, how they can be installed, maintained and removed, and what the costs could be.

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