On Thursday, we were heading to Prince Edward Island, but we decided to take a detour on our way to visit FORCE, the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy.
I had contacted the centre a few days before to make sure that we would be able to bring Gracie into their lot -- the lady who responded let me know that there was a gravel road that may be potholed for about 4 miles getting to their location, but that we would be fine to park in their lot. I had looked for a place to park Gracie and just take the Jeep from Parrsboro, but really didn't find a place that we felt we could leave Gracie... so we drove down to the centre with Gracie and the Jeep. More on that in a later post!
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It is a modest building with good information about what they are doing with regard to tidal energy research.
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There was an array of solar panels outside - a partnership of the province and the municipality - allowing the power company to transfer power back into the grid. (Not used for powering anything at FORCE.)
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One of the big responsibilities for FORCE is to evaluate the impact of the harvesting of energy on the environment around the devices.
There were a couple of models of types of devices used in monitoring the impact of tidal energy harvesting devices:
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An example of the cable that has been laid to support the projects. For sense of scale the cable was about 6 inches in diameter.
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Outside, there was weather information gathering equipment...
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... as well as radar on top of the building. The radar is tuned to gather water current information - usually considered "noise" to radar, but is precisely the information they want to gather.
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There was an array of solar panels outside - a partnership of the province and the municipality - allowing the power company to transfer power back into the grid. (Not used for powering anything at FORCE.)
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Some information about the solar array at the site (not technically part of FORCE but on their site).
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Their website has really great information to complete your view of FORCE: https://fundyforce.ca/about-us
They also have provided access to much of their data in real-time: https://fundyforcelive.ca/#!/
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