Green Energy From Manhattan's East River

circletimessquare writes "New York City's waterways are geographically unique in that they force tides from Long Island Sound down the East River in one of the most concentrated, powerful flows on the East Coast. If all goes as planned, a company called Verdant Power will build a $20 million, 10 megawatt underwater turbine field there by late 2005. The turbines spin slowly enough so that they pose no threat to wildlife (har har), are placed in spots where they do not interfere with commercial shipping, and are deep enough to not interfere with recreational boating. About the only drawback to the scheme are the supply shortage periods when the tides are slack. The New York Times has the scoop."

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from the pcb-heaven dept????

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell is Michael's idiotic aside based on?

The East River has no pcbs, it was the Hudson that got dumped with pcbs. All jokes aside, the East and Hudson rivers are now pretty clean, clean enough to swim in at least.

Seriously, what exactly is Michael's contribution to slashdot, other than trolling and baiting everybody?

Put it next to a rich liberal's house

[ccmay]

How long until wealthy waterfront property owners start howling?

Just like the pious liberal hypocrites of Nantucket Sound, where wind energy could supply immense amounts of clean energy-- but ohhh, NOoo, the windmills get in the way of the view from the deck of my yacht, put them where some poor white trash live, thank you; serves them right for voting for Bush.

Fucking hypocritical limousine-liberal scum like Teddy Kennedy make me sick. I hope the bloated swine croaks soon.

-ccm