Earlier this week, Mr Salmond said the firth was the Saudi Arabia of marine power.
But there is little chance of marine power making a major contribution by 2020.
The green credit support scheme will give an additional tier of financial incentive to firms seeking to harness marine power.
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It needs offshore oil and gas companies to get involved with skills and technology they can transfer into marine power.
The giants like Siemens, BP, ExxonMobil have staked a claim on cold-ironing but then so have smaller outfits like TEMCO, Cavotec, Wittmar (CleanAir Marine Power) and Cochran.
The other factor, as I've written before, is that Scotland can only sell its wind and marine power, for all those subsidies from customers in foreign countries, if those technologies remain competitive.
The International Energy Agency thinks that Britain is pursuing more marine-power designs (29) than any other country (America, with 13, is second).
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Subsidies are more generous in countries such as Portugal, which is keen on building a marine-power sector of its own and offers extra cash to less mature technologies.
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"The RSEP program is a key initiative in the Marine Corps' expeditionary power systems portfolio for advanced power sources that embrace renewable energy systems as a means to reduce fossil fuel requirements, " said Mike Gallagher, program manager for expeditionary power systems at Marine Corps Systems Command, which will work with ONR to transition the technology to the field.
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Each unit of power fed into the grid from a marine renewable machine earns about five times more than power generated by a fossil fuel.
As officials often point out, they cannot deploy a soldier or marine for each mile of power or pipeline.
Mainstream Renewable Power is seeking consent from Marine Scotland to erect up to 125 turbines about nine miles off the Fife coast.
Deputy Brouard added that an agreement on access to the sea bed would need to be carried out with the Crown before Guernsey could build wind or marine turbines, but he said solar power had considerable potential.
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Plans for the energy scheme were first put forward four years ago by Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and the power company RWE nPower.
Big shipping firms now support an official push for higher-quality fuels. (A new report suggests cleaning up marine fuels could save many lives.) Power plants are adding scrubbers.
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Virgil Zetterlind, cofounder of nautical-charts provider EarthNC, says iPads make smart replacements for traditional marine chart plotters because they are multipurpose, power efficient, simple to use, readable in direct sunlight and easily updatable.
David Pugh, the leader of the Isle of Wight council, is hoping to interest Southampton University, which has a big marine-research division, in his tidal-power plans.
The Nationalist devolved Scottish government thinks that if Scottish companies can establish a lead in marine energy, much as Denmark did in wind power, it could be a big job and wealth creator for the country.
The team of scientists has laid bare the power-generating mechanism used by well-known marine bacteria.
The new system is suitable for numerous industry sectors including highway transportation, marine, rail and remote industries such as mining and distributed power generation.
"This program takes on a number of power-related challenges and ultimately will allow the Marine Corps to take a big step toward its goal of using fuel only for mobility purposes by 2025, " said H.
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Currently, the top five companies that account for a third of stock holdings, he says, are non-Hyundai blue chips SK Telecom, power utility KEPCO, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance, and steel giant POSCO.
Yet to come (and be placed) is a marine-safety agency, at one moment destined for that mighty seaboard power, Luxembourg, until France rocked the boat with a claim from Brest.
But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.
Representatives from a big power company, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Marine Corps and the Department of Energy (DOE) were asked what innovations are on the way.
Danny Kinahan said the Marine Bill, which was at its second stage, did not "have a lot of power, or the necessary teeth".
Geever says for years groups like his have tried to shut down the power plant because its so-called once-through cooling system kills tons of marine life.
The meeting is expected to discuss how to improve marine environmental accident response support, such as on the radiological material discharge after the recent accident at Fukushima Power Plant in Japan in March 2011.
Maybe the ongoing decline of American economic power means the nation can no longer afford to field the kind of unique expeditionary capabilities for which the Marine Corps is known.
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