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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first post

[Anonymous Coward]

just wanted to be first for 1ce

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:What was it?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've seen a lot of green stuff in that river, but I didn't think it was energy.

This is most likely what you saw

Re:Great Idea, but..

[Nadsat]

Saying "the problem of nuclear power is merely one of 'waste' and what to do with it" is like saying the problem with George Bush is only one of war.

Open source coursework

[Sir Homer]

There is a sister project to Wikipedia called Wikibooks. The goal of Wikibooks is to create student textbooks and distrubte them under the GNU FDL (a GPL-like licence). Another project that is in planning stages is Wikiversity, which aims to use content from Wikipedia and other open source sources to create reuseable/modular learning content.