Xinhua - English "World's first tidal power station"

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/25/content_2505696.htm This opened in China, bravo. Years ago, there was one proposed by the FDR administration nearby to Campobello Island at the Passamaquoddy Reservation. I remember following the re-proposed as the "Half Moon Tidal Project" a feasibility study. The old system was started during the Depression and then, abandoned when the War came, other breakthrus in power generation in Maine or lack of funding. I was interested, and I think a small one does exist. Anyone know from the "Quoddy Tides"? I could write a "letter to the chairman" over in China, where my Uncle Nick Cirillo, once visitor and summer resident of Seal Cove, was part of the first American companies doing business in China after President Nixon's trip to China. He visited there, Sri Lanka, India and Bangkok, Thailand for his company doing business in the textiles. He also once carried a briefcase with a large scissor with which he cut the designers patterns into reality on Seventh Ave., the fashion district in NYC. I remember an international "incident" between U-S and Canada over tidal power a number of years ago. There was proposed for Nova Scotia, in the upper Bay of Fundy, a large tidal power generating plant. It was followed by a study of its effects I saw in "Scientific American" a magazine of science started in NYC in the 19th century. The study found that the tide at Boston, MA would be altered by 1/2 a foot and other effects in the tide would increase, perhaps, as one went north along the coast of Maine. With the widest tidal ranges on earth found in the Bay of Fundy, (second Mont St. Michel, France, on the English Channel) the effects must be a very complicated computation. Having once with my grandfather, driven to Grand Manan along Route 1 which hugs the coast of the Gulf of Maine in many places, one could imagine "unintended consequences". Perhaps smaller ones are better. One design being tested in Scotland, an underwater platform that uses the bottom current to hold the platform down as the water moves across the power generating blade looks promising, a "crouching tiger hidden dragon".