The Heavyweight Sea Snail

Roland Piquepaille writes "Scotland, like many European countries, must comply with regulations requiring that a mandatory percentage of the energy it uses comes from renewable sources. For Scotland, this percentage will be 18% in 2010 and 40% by 2020. One of the programs in development is Ian Bryden's sea 'Snail' program. The Snail is a 30-ton anchoring device which uses hydrofoils -- wings that 'fly' in the water -- to generate enough power from tidal waves to service 10,000 homes by 2007. This overview contains more details and a picture of a prototype of the Snail with its six wings." There are several mentions of this in UK newspapers and the Scottish government webpages.

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first tampons got wings...

[Lazarus_Bitmap]

Now sea snails. Armageddon is coming.

Re:When I saw heaveyweight...

[James Lewis]

Probably because the US is the United States of America. Most names for people from a country are a short version of the country's name with "an" on the end. Lets not try to read arrogance into EVERYthing having to do with the US...

Re:When I saw heaveyweight...

[clarkcox3]

why did the U.S. steal the term that covers everyone from North, Central, & South AMERICA?

Well, seeing as Virginia was the first English colony in the Americas, I see no problem with the people living in the country that that colony eventually became calling themselves Americans (i.e. the English name for people from that continent). Just as I would have no problem with the people living in the countries that came from the first Spanish colonies calling themselves Americanos. What do you suggest people from the United States of America call themselves?