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The Rance Tidal Power Scheme taken on 23 August 2003 |
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Le Cloitre Pleyben - small village Pointe du Raz - beach and headland Locronan - tourism village honeypot |
The St Malo side of the estuary 800-08230006.JPG 47KB |
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The upstream entrance to the boat lock. |
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The road bridge in raised, as a yacht navigates the lock at the western end of the Rance barrage; Dinard is in the background.
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The lock gates in their closed positions.
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The low barrage carries a busy road across the estuary of the River Rance. The power house is towards the far bank.
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The exhibition of the Rance Tidal Power project is located in the barrage wall, contains the large bulb turbine shown and has some excellent interactive computer programs.
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The bulb turbines make energy from both the flood and ebb tides, as long as there is a suitable difference in height between the two bodies of water.
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From the east bank the sluices for the power bulbs can be seen ...
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The Dinard side of the estuary .. a large file!
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... and the sluices in some more detail.
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