It will be able to rise and fall to compensate for the 8 m tidal difference in Darwin by using air compression and water ballasting.
The Damen Hydro Deck will be handling transition pieces and modules coming from Asia as the large seagoing vessels bringing the modules in cannot offload given the significant tidal difference.
The Hydro Deck has a depth of 12 m and has the ability to rise and fall to compensate for the 8 m tidal difference in Darwin by using air compression and water ballasting.
The Damen Hydro Deck will be used to handle transition pieces and modules coming from Asia as the large seagoing vessels bringing the modules in cannot offload given the significant tidal difference.
As a result a unique habitat was formed in the limited
tidal differences and the continuous change of salt water and fresh water.
Engineers try to tap tides in two ways: one involves building barrages across tidal estuaries that use
tidal differences in sea surface elevation, so that the flowing waters turn turbines in a similar fashion as hydropower installations.
The protection system can span widths of up to 60 metres, sustain large
tidal differences and be resistant to wind, currents and corrosion (seawater), according to the statement.
Capt Steve Gobbi, Peel Ports marine director, said: "The Mersey has one of the UK's largest
tidal differences at 10m.
The smallest
tidal differences, called "neap tides," come at the first and third quarters of the lunar month, when the forces exerted by lunar and solar gravity do more to cancel each other.
There are no planned or existing tidal power projects in the United States; in the United States only Alaska and Maine experience the large
tidal differences that are necessary to make such plants feasible.
Tidal differences of up to 30 feet and the intricately convoluted shoreline of the Korean peninsula's west coast contribute to the existence of extensive and very rich tidal flats.
