Wscott anderson, Jr., was fishing in the strong currents off Alaska's Kenai Peninsula when he began to wonder how he might harness the power of all that moving water. Less than two years later, he won a national award for developing a device that not only converts tidal power into electricity but does so without harming fish.rnAnderson's invention, which he calls the ECO-Auger, takes the form of a helical turbine that turns like a screw when submerged in moving water.
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