Marine-to-Electric Current Converter
We came across this Italian firm at the WIREC 2008 conference in Washington, D.C. in 2008. They have some innovative designs and manufacture a marine-current to electric-current converter, a gas diffusion electrode fuel cell and submerged floating tunnel.
Ponte di Archimede International Company was established in 1983 as a part of the Caronte Shipping Group. Ponte di Archimede works in the field of research and development into alternative and renewable energy sources, specializing in the environmental aspects of this work.
Ponte di Archimede International Company has worked with several important scientific institutions, including the Academy of Sciences of the People’s Republic of China, on a study of a permanent link to be made with an Archimedes Bridge, in the Jintang Strait, Zhejiang Province.
Ponte di Archimede International Company carries out their international scientific researches with the support of important Italian scientists from the Italian Shipping Register (RINA), the National Council of Research (CNR), the University Politecnico di Milano, the University of Naples “Federico II” and INSEAN - the Italian Ship Model Basin.
[via] http://www.pontediarchimede.it/language_us/
