The world’s largest tidal turbine, weighing 1000 tonnes, has been installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. The tidal turbine is rated at 1.2 megawatts, which is enough to power a thousand local homes. It was built by Marine Current Turbines, and it will be the first commercial tidal turbine to produce energy, when it begins operation later this year.

What can I say, I get all excited by tidal energy turbines. It’s great stuff. Did you know that it’s one of very few energy systems not created by the sun? Wikipedia says so:

This is the only form of energy which comes from the motion of the Earth-Moon system, though some of it comes from the solar tides as well. Most other sources of energy come directly or indirectly from the Sun, including fossil fuels, conventional hydroelectric, wind, biofuels, and solar. The remainder, nuclear and geothermal for instance, have radioactive material on Earth as their source.

I know. Amazing. Let’s go learn more:

Environmental News Network: World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Successfully Installed
www.seageneration.co.uk - the company behind it is actually called Marine Current Turbines.
Tidal power at wikipedia. (Not to be confused with Wave power.)