fuck. -- tony
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [None of my posts from yesterday seem to have made it... sorry if this ends > up posted twice.] > > I've always thought that wave energy (generating power from the motion of > the ocean and the tides) has always been woefully under-appreciated. We > have, pragmatically, a perpetual motion system here and we're failing to tap > it. > > This new design is clever, simple and awesome - exactly the kind of stuff we > need: > > http://gizmodo.com/5022335/huge-rubber-snake-is-no-joke-generates-power-from > -waves > > I've often thought about the actual density of power collection we could get > from any section of coastline. You could, for example, set up an offshore > wind farm above, a set of these (or other) "out-in-the-water" wave > generators and a series of gravity-fed tidal generators on the coast itself > with traditional "flapper" or paddle generators in-between. In some areas > power can also be generated using thermal generators (working with water > temperature changes) or with algae-based bio-fuel. > > All this could still be done while keeping much of the same beach available > for recreational use. > > There's also potential to offset construction and operating costs by > applying infrastructure to other uses. For example the pylons of an > offshore wind farm could be used for mussel farming or as bases for other > oceanic agriculture. > > Like I said: the sheer density of use that a few miles of coastline could be > put to astounds me. And unlike strip mining or nuclear it would almost all > be eco- and recreation-friendly. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263506 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
