Slow motion energy.

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A device to harness energy from slow-moving water currents and turn it into electricity is exciting scientists around the world. Developed at the Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory at the University of Michigan, it's the first new technique in 100 years to use water to create clean, renewable energy. "Everybody is excited by this," says Mike Bernitsas, director of the lab and inventor of the device, called VIVACE. It is based on the phenomenon of "vortex induced vibrations," first observed 500 years ago by Leonardo DaVinci. Underwater...