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On the drawing board....

1 posted on 09/19/2006 8:50:53 AM PDT by Uncledave

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Renewable Energy Ping

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2 posted on 09/19/2006 8:51:19 AM PDT by Uncledave

Uh, I proposed this about 5 years ago. Do I get royalties?

Okay, I only told my wife and a few friends, but still.....

3 posted on 09/19/2006 8:54:28 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("We will slaughter anyone who calls Islam violent!")

Sounds like a great idea to me. It will be amusing to see how all those rich beachfront homeowners from Massachusetts suddenly forget about the dire environmental consequences of offshore wind power as soon as the turbines are no longer visible from their second floor windows.

4 posted on 09/19/2006 8:56:02 AM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)

Cool!

I guess those tethers gotta be tough to withstand a hurricane.

5 posted on 09/19/2006 8:56:32 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)

How are they going to get the electricity onshore?

6 posted on 09/19/2006 8:57:09 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)

J-FinK & Ted kennedy is against it! They might see one when they are sailing their yachts!.......

9 posted on 09/19/2006 8:59:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)

"On the drawing board...."

OLD concept. When I first heard about this (I think 40 years ago), it was called "FLIP" (though I forget what the acronym stood for). I have always wondered when someone would couple it with windmills. A bigger problem would seem to be the cost of transmission from 150 miles offshore.

Thanks be to Google:

http://history.nasa.gov/HHR-32/ch18.htm

"At the request of OTDA, GSFC issued 8 Request for Proposal on December 8, 1964, for a comprehensive feasibility study of SOP's as instrumentation facilities compared to conventional ships. The work statement for the study called for examination of two sizes of platform: a "small" type, generally associated with the concept of the FLIP ship then being operated by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography; and a "large" type, generally associated with the multi-leg floating platform concept as typified by the MOHOLE platform then being designed for the National Science Foundation (NSF). GSFC's evaluation of the eleven industry proposals received was presented to the Source Evaluation Board (SEB) in NASA Headquarters on May 4, 1965."

10 posted on 09/19/2006 8:59:16 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)

--I am curious about the conversion of windmill power (DC, I assume) to line power (3-phase AC)---anybody out here have a reference?

13 posted on 09/19/2006 9:02:07 AM PDT by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)

It would take thousands of these things to equal the capacity of one nuclear power plant.

18 posted on 09/19/2006 9:06:54 AM PDT by jrp

MIT designs 'invisible,' floating wind turbines

How do you prevent birds from flying into it?

19 posted on 09/19/2006 9:07:48 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Liberalism in a parasite that ALWAYS kills its host.)

In the Northeast, for example, they could be 50 to 150 kilometers from shore.

It seems to me that they could be much closer to shore without 'offending' sensitive eyeballs, such as Ted Kennedy's.

28 posted on 09/19/2006 9:15:07 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)

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