Kinda Christmassy, don't ya think?
Glad you liked it, and thanks for visiting my profile page, by the way. I have that graphic posted with a nice Christmas song.
Posted on 11/03/2005 10:28:48 PM PST by TheMadLurker
Oh, goody!
Do you have an established prurience level, or shall we discover it as we go along?
Goodnight.
Pleasant dreams.
Don't do anything I'd do.
Howya Alice, I'm off to bed, sorry I will miss you, goodnight!
Good night IT!
Sea snake will power green electrissssssity
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
A huge new wave power machine designed and built in Scotland could be the first to provide consumers with clean, green electricity from out at sea.
The enterprise minister, Jim Wallace, is due to inaugurate Pelamis, a device the size of a small train, at a ceremony at Leith docks tomorrow . Named after the Greek word for sea snake, it is expected to deliver its first power later this year.
Pelamis will be towed up to the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, where it will be tested in the sea. “This will be the first deep-water, grid-connected trial of a full-size wave power generator to take place anywhere in the world,” said Richard Yemm, the managing director of Ocean Power Delivery, the Edinburgh company behind Pelamis.
A single 750-kilowatt Pelamis is likely to generate about the same amount of power as a wind turbine. A “wave farm” covering a square kilometre of ocean would provide enough electricity for 20,000 homes, with 20 such farms capable of powering a city the size of Edinburgh.
“We’re confident of Pelamis’s ability to survive and the way it will perform, because the design has been fully verified according to internationally recognised offshore codes and standards,” explained Yemm. “The whole system is designed to give us a high safety factor in the worst storm we could expect in 100 years.”
Built in Methil and Stonehaven, the prototype Pelamis is 120 metres long, 3.5 metres wide and 700 tonnes in weight. When floating on the sea, hinged joints between its articulated cylindrical sections move with the waves, powering hydraulic motors which then generate electricity.
Pelamis is the result of six years of research and development, backed by the Department of Transport and Industry’s new and renewable energy programme. If the trials are successful, commercial machines are likely to be ordered immediately.
“The inauguration of the Pelamis wave energy device is a significant milestone in marine energy development, said Wallace. “Scotland has the full potential to create a marine energy supply chain, utilising existing oil and gas industry expertise. The collaboration of Scottish companies on the Pelamis project is a fine example of this potential.”
Pelamis was also welcomed by environmental groups . “We wish this latest project every success in a speedy transition from prototype to final commercial roll-out,” said Dr Dan Barlow, head of research at Friends of the Earth Scotland.
“ Wave and tidal power schemes have the potential to generate just as much, if not more, renewable energy than Scotland’s entire onshore wind resource.”
'evening,NnB re the proposed voyage of the 27th are we bringing plenty of dirt or are we planning to make our own from livestock dung and if so did we pack plenty of bugs we may be able to feed 10,000 people using hydroponics but animal husbandry calls for dirt dirt doesn't just happen you know
i held part of a patent on a wave-powered alternating current generator. published too. then the idiot university sold it out from under us. never got a sniff of any money from it either. fascinating research though.
Those baubles? Well, yeah, I suppose. They rate pretty high on the hardness scale.
But they wouldn't do for your um, exercise spheres. DC was talking about a nice, smooth non-reactive surface with a dense material rattling around inside. Best of both worlds sort of thing, and who cares what they look like?
That crystallized carbon stuff is just for the tourists. It's not worth anything, unless you make tools out of it.
Kinda Christmassy, don't ya think?
Glad you liked it, and thanks for visiting my profile page, by the way. I have that graphic posted with a nice Christmas song.
That's okay. I'm sure we'll catch up with one another eventually. Sleep tight!
Christmas music?
*Stampeding to bio page..*
(Looks like a Gil Elvgren painting. Wish I was half as good as Elvgren.)
We have dirt.
The castle is surrounded, beyond the courtyard walls, and just beyond the moat, with a mile of meadow and forest, out to the "steel fence" that we erected when we first started moving it around.
Now the whole place is enclosed to keep the air in, but we still have dirt.
A very merry Christmas indeed!
Kinda reminds me of a Vargas painting or one of Elvgren works.
When did this happen?!
Merry Christmas to you as well. :-)
Don't worry about dirt. I'm bringing the kids; they attract dirt.
which or what?
LOL, you look good to me, Darks!
You're kidding, right? I'm a girl, NnB. They have to look good and feel marvelous!
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