mega-bump!
Damn, Hoover, you're onto something!
Probably not, they will come up with some lower form of sealife that will be harmed by the turbines.
I'm sorry, but a manatee might be inconvienced so this is a non-starter. Sorry.
Gee.....what if it interferes with a seagull or a fish?
Just build nukes and drill......
There is no free lunch. The gulf stream is not free energy. In the first place, it would cost a great deal to harvest the energy. In the second, every erg withdrawn from the gulf stream off Florida is not available further downstream, e.g., in Northern Europe. Result: colder Europe and political opposition.
I live in Florida and I WANT OIL RIGS off the coast with AMERICAN flags, NOT CUBAN flags!!!
I am so angry with Jeb Bush and Mel Martinez about this issue I could spit nails!!!
The Cubans are going to put up the nastiest, leaking oil platforms that will get the oil up and out the fastest and don't give a hang about the enviroment!!! They will use old Russian designed rigs ( that were American designs of the '40's and '50's!!!) and will throw them up and down the Gulf, with the aid of Chavez!
I want oil rigs and refineries with American jobs, American workers and American citizens recieving the benifit of our natural resources!!!
Because, doncha know, diverting the atream will cause the UK to "freeze over." Lowering the temp of the revolving current will cause the 'far end' recipients of the stream to get COLD WATER!
Get it? The envirowhackos are right! LOL....
Because, doncha know, diverting the stream will cause the UK to "freeze over." Lowering the temp of the revolving current will cause the 'far end' recipients of the stream to get COLD WATER!
Get it? The envirowhackos are right! LOL....
It will kill the fishies caught up in the turbines. Shame on you for putting our energy needs ahead of the fish!
/sarcasm/
Can't wait for the first hurricane to take that sucker off line. It would of course happen during a republican administration if we ever have another.
I remember seeing something about this in popular mechanics 20+ years ago. Something about using the temperature differential at varying depths to drive electric turbines.
WOW!!!
I've heard vague references to this kind of technology for several years, but I had no idea that a proven design existed. This looks like it is worthy project.
At one time wind turbines were scoffed as being impractical, but there are thousands of them all over the place, and they are putting a lot of power into the grid.
I hope someone gets behind this one and soon...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/news/newsmakers/gates_ethanol/index.htm
"The investment vehicle for the world's richest man, Cascade Investment, has acquired a 25.5 percent stake in Pacific Ethanol, a Fresno, Calif., based outfit that distributes ethanol throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon."
You heard it here first ;)
Got to get to my stock broker.
This could be done. How many joules, ergs, Btus, kWhr do you need, and which $ trillion lottery did you win?
Bobby Kennedy Jr. doesn't even want an above-water wind farm near his Nantucket Mansion: http://www.capewind.org
Put a submersible vane on a tether, ballast to sink it and let it play out the rope dragging it downstream until the rope plays out and pump the hollow vane back out into the sea and allow the float to sail back to the starting point to begin again all the while providing impetus to a huge flywheel driving a turbine generator.