Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
By Jeanne Roberts on January 30, 2012
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Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reports provide back-to-back confirmation that the potential for electricity from coastal wave and tidal stream energy could reach as high as 15 percent of the total of current U.S. electrical demand.
