Posted by NCWayne on March 03, 2009 at 22:19:55 from (166.82.169.10):
In Reply to: O.T. Hydroelectric posted by doorman on March 03, 2009 at 20:31:10:
There was a show on the other night about making electricity. They showed a plant that opened gates and allowed a huge basin to fill with the incomming tide and then when the tide went out they funneled the captured water through turbines to generate electricity. They said thyey could get about 5 hours of power generation time off of each tide change. Along with that they showed what they called a centerless turbine. It was designed to be set in the water and turn, producing power, just by the motion of the tides, both ways. If they can do this with just the changing movement (inflow and outflow) of the water from the tides why can't they use the constant flow of a river for the same thing?
Beyond these things my question has always been why not figure out how to capture and use the power generated by lightening? Mother nature has provided us with pretty a much unlimited supply of natural electricity if someone could just figure out how to capture it, and make it usable. I can't believe with all the technology we have nowdays that it can't be done.
Then again all of this is being done to reduce greenhouse gasses, etc. Why not take the billions spent on research and use it to widen the roads and give driving lessions. The less gridlock at rush hour the less emissions being expelled into the air from idling vehicles for no reason. Then provide better training for the numerous dumb a$$ driver who don't know how to exit an interstate, merge onto an interstate, move over when construction signa warn of lane closures two miles in advance, etc etc, all which tend to cause the gridlock in question, and you have a two prong approach to reducing alot of needless polution.
Read any trade magazine that has an article on "clean power" and what you'll ultimately find is there are alot of things that can be done but it takes real money to do all of them and nobody really wants to spend the money....
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