Britain is set this week to enter a new age, generating energy directly from the seas that surge around its shores. On Saturday a strange, 122ft- long contraption – looking like an upside-down windmill – will set off from the Belfast dock that built the Titanic to produce the first electricity ever brought ashore from British tides.

The device – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – is expected to start a revolution which could lead to our island nation getting a fifth of its power from its surrounding waters, and to the far north of Scotland becoming \”the Saudi Arabia of marine energy\”.

Read the rest of this very cool article @ The Independent

These are the alternative energy ETFs available to trade. Sometimes new ETFs come to market. We will do our best to have this list up to date.

GEX

-Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy ETF

PBD

– PowerShares Global Clean Energy ETF

PBW

– PowerShares Wilderhill Energy ETF

PZD

– PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio

QCLN

– First Trust NASDAQ Clean Tech ETF

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