Posted on 10/22/2005 11:09:01 AM PDT by aculeus
Can anybody say, "Gulfstream?"
From the late 18th century through much of the 19th Century, Chesapeake Bay was lined by Tidemills. A gate would be closed during the tidal period to trap water in the millpond which, when released, turned the wheel of the mill and ground corn ...
Many of these mills were burned or destroyed by the Yankees ...
self-ping
--to be expected from the treehuggers--they're against anything that might work no matter how small or large--
Cost per kilowatt is the whole ticket. It looks to be the same cost structure as windmills as far as equipment, but the question is the power density of these flows. Doable, yes. Cost?????
Have you EVER seen one of these enviro outfits SUPPORT any alternative power generation? Their approach is to fight for the life of even one minnow, wall-eyed toad, cross-eyed salamander ad nauseum. I suspect they'd prefer everyone (except them) to live a subsistence life in teepees "in tune with Mother Nature/Gaia", all the while enjoying six-figure salaries by the enviro elites, or preferably the taxpayer.
Something like the water wheels that have been used for hundreds of years?
I guess it's not beating fossil fuels or nuclear by a huge margin.
enviro-whackos can still find something to gripe about
Thanks, Got a nice fast moving stream in my back yard !!!
Going to watch this one close.
"5 to 10 megawatts - peanuts - the smallest nuclear plant is 476 megawatts and the largest is 3825 megawatts using 3 reactors.."
Yup, they're small fry, but 50 of them equals the smallest nuclear power plant, at lower cost and less chance for problems.
Small power plants used to be part of our electrical generation system. There used to be hundreds of them in New England, alone. They're gone now, but that doesn't mean they're gone forever. I see some new interest in these plants. It doesn't take much of a head to generate usable power.
Gee, I wonder if something like this could be used to make cornmeal??, or maybe even to provide power to knitting mills??
"Several hundred" 5 meter turbines...anchored in concrete on the bottom...5-10MW sounds very expensive, very economically inefficient, very hazardous/vulnerable to navigation, fishing, or whatever.
Also, if it is the East River, they better have screens to catch the bodies, so the chains and cement overshoes don't damage the equipment.
The best use sounded like recovering some of the enery of the California aquaducts' flow, to put back into the pumping stations.
Next, they'll be telling us we should put hydraulic rams everywhere, to pump water 'for free' to the top of a hill, so it can flow back down to a turbine at the bottom to generate 'free electricity'. With enough of these along our waterways....
JUST BUILD A FEW NEW NUKE PLANTS and be done with it.
MORE NUKES!!!!! Start messing in the water and the enviromentalists will make it very costly to produce energy.
BTTT
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