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."

Comments

Re:Good News

[njcoder]

How does anyone mod this up as interesting when all the post contains are two questions that are answered in the article?

Re:Put it next to a rich liberal's house

[Lawrence_Bird]

then it would need to be on the upper west and in the Hudson or Harlem rivers.

Dont forget that they want to shoot down the windmills in VT as well. The commies are all for eco this and renewable that as long as NIMBY!

The difference: conservatives are not hypocrites

[ccmay]

Where are the conservatives wanting windmills taking up space on their property?

Most conservatives do not lecture everybody else about how they should properly spend their money or what they should do with their own private property. The average conservative could care less where a windmill is built, as long as he's not taxed to pay for it.

Everybody loves to see a hypocrite exposed, and it works both ways-- don't fucking lie to me and tell me you didn't laugh your ass off when Jimmy Swaggart got caught with a twenty dollar hooker.

So why not expose the commie-greenie bastards when it turns out they're more selfish than all us poor dumb schmoes who have to pay for their idiotic ideas?? John Kerry is all for oil conservation, but my goodness, he owns three Suburbans.

Barbara Streisand is as shrill as anybody when pontificating to Middle America about its selfish use of oil, but oh! for her, it's an air-conditioned 25,000 square foot mansion on one of the most scenic beaches in the country, and private jets all over the world. She uses ten times as many natural resources as I do.

Fuck her and everybody like her. Let them set an example to the rest of us, or SHUT THEIR FUCKING FAT MOUTHS. When some empty-headed celebrity harpy like Barbara Streisand moves into a normal size house, and swears off limousines and overseas travel forever, then (and only then) has she earned the right to say JACK SHIT about environmentalism.

Until then I'll spend my money as I please, and the environment be damned.

-ccm