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What are the limitations of the energy that can be obtained from the oceans?

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Energy from the oceans can be obtained in the form oftidal energy, wave energy and ocean thermal energy. But these energy sources suffer from the following limitations:
• There are very few location where dams to utilise tidal energy can be built.
• Cost of installation of power houses is extremely high and efficiency of plant is comparitively small
• Power plant built in oceans or sea shores will need high continuous maintaince as chances of corrosion are exteremely high.
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