There will be tides around the Mid-Autumn Festival. What does the tide have to do with?

The August 18th Tide was spectacular. The Dajianshan in the east of Hangzhou Bay extended to the mouth of the bay, making Hangzhou Bay a "bottle" and making seawater flow backwards better. However, due to the small mouth, the sea water could not get in for a while, thus forming a spring tide. Yan Guan Scenic Spot in Haining, 50 kilometers away from Hangzhou, is the best place to watch the tide, and the day around August 18th of the lunar calendar is the best time to watch Qian Jiangchao. Tides are caused by the attraction of the moon and the sun to the sea water on the earth's surface.

The sun, the moon and the earth line up in a straight line around the first and fifteenth day of each month in the lunar calendar. The gravity of the sun and the moon combine to attract the sea water on the earth's surface, so the tides on the first and fifteenth day of each month are relatively large. Especially around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the earth is closest to the sun in a year, so the autumn tide around the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the biggest in a year.

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Application of Tide in Environmental Protection

Tidal energy is a kind of energy produced by the periodic fluctuation of seawater caused by tidal force. This is a kind of renewable energy, with huge reserves to be developed. The coastline of China is 32,000 kilometers long. Continental coastline 18000km, island coastline 14000km, rich in tidal energy resources. Tidal energy is clean and renewable, and can be recycled if used properly. It will greatly improve the energy consumption structure dominated by coal and reduce the harmful substances produced by primary energy combustion, which is of great significance to improve air quality.

2. The application of tides in natural disaster prevention.

In recent years, natural disasters have occurred frequently all over the world, causing huge casualties and property losses, such as the Indonesian tsunami in 2004, the tropical storm in Myanmar in 2008 and the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, which made people pay more attention to the prediction of natural disasters. The law and function of tides is a complex geophysical problem, and tides and other natural phenomena play an important role in natural disaster prediction. It is more effective to collect more information and find the connection between them than to study natural disasters alone.

3. The application of tides in electric power.

The principle of tidal power generation, like ordinary hydropower generation, is a process of converting potential energy into kinetic energy and then into electrical energy through a certain height of potential energy difference. Tidal power generation must meet two conditions: the tide must be large and have enough potential energy; There must be a suitable geographical environment.

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