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Rafael Ortega

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  1. Technology

    Tidal turbine prototype starts generating in the channel off Fenwick Point

    The 500-kilowatt machine sits on the seabed and turns with the incoming and outgoing tides, and engineers will spend two years testing how it copes with strong currents.

  2. World

    Guardians of the coast: lighthouses around the world

    From Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves.

  3. World

    Wrenhaven twin town Velde now runs entirely on community-owned solar power

    Velde, the small inland town twinned with Wrenhaven, now produces as much electricity as it uses over a year from a solar park owned by its own residents through an energy cooperative.

  4. Culture

    Folk song archive of 3,000 recordings from the Asher Valley digitised and opened to all

    Reel-to-reel tapes made in farmhouses and pubs from the 1950s onwards can now be heard free of charge, after a three-year project by the Central Library.