Is it easy or hard to transfer tidal energy to houses and buildings?

Question

and if easy why? if hard why? thanks so much for people that will answer.. i just can't find the info that's why..

Answer 1

Research and technology firms are very close to developing turbines (like wind turbines) that can be put on the ocean floor and will generate power from the tidal currents.  

The things they have to be srue of is that the turbines can take the strong tidal currents withotu breaking and that the are sealed properly so that salt water does not corrode the mechanisms.

Off Manhattan, in the east river, they are already harnessing those tides and creating electricity for New York City with plans to add many more turbines making New York City one of the largest cities in the US powered by renewable energy.

Answer 2

There are already generators that harness tidal forces, I believe there are some in Belgium and England and other places in Europe. There have just been underwater generators installed which utilize the flow of the East River in New York to generate a considerably amount of power. I believe we'll see many more of these types of systems installed in the future because they use

hydroelectric power without building dams and making reservoirs, which cause considerable environmental damage, and are very expensive.

Answer 3

who knows ??? but there are ways to do it like water wheels and stuff ...............

Answer 4

Transferring the energy is not hard, once you have generated power the transfer part takes pretty much care of itself, there are some small entropy concerns but that is really for electricity traveling over long distances.

Where it gets hard is spending the capital to retrieve the tidal energy and then having a system that stores that energy or sends it to the grid via an inverter.

Answer 5

Tidal power, in it's current state is not terribly cost efficient compared to other means, as the technology is still very new. The energy density, the amount of power that is available in the tides is huge, and is renewable, but significant hurdles are still there. One of the most basic is that salt water is very corrosive, and anything in the ocean will either rust, or must be made out of very expensive materials that don't rust. Add to this the impact to wildlife, property value, and available tide levels, it is very difficult to build large scale tidal power plants.

The actual transferring of energy to the electrical grid, is relatively easy. It is the extraction of energy that is hard.