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Green Energy Now, And On The Tide
thpr writes "The Electric Power Research Institute and its partners have completed their Offshore Wave Power Feasibility Demonstration Project, which defined potential wave energy projects off the shores of the United States. This is building off of work already done in Scotland (and elsewhere). San Francisco, New York and other areas are considering trial installations of the technology. It is interesting to note (table 1 in the report) that the energy density (kW/m^2) that can be achieved is much higher than wind or solar. In addition, harnessing 24% of available wave energy near the US at 50% efficiency is equal to all of the hydropower currently generated in the US (~7% of total electricity production). On a separate note, in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's $1.2B 2006 budget the Department of Energy is closing out the Hydropower Technologies Program. Maybe that's why this technology is missing from our National Energy Policy?" Until it reaches maturity, though, U.S. readers can pay for other forms of green energy.
...Back under the bridge, troll. "Slows the planet's rotation?" Please cite your source for THAT one, I'd love to see who came up with it.
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Coal is vastly more damageing to the environment to extract than uranium per watt-hour, which is what matters. A little nucler fuel goes a long way.
And please stop spreading the myth that nuclear waste must be "stored securely for thousands of years". The dangerous stuff must be stored securely for maybe 750-1000 years, which is a much more reasonable engineering effort. The waste with a longer half-life than 100 years we keep around because it's valuable, not becuase it's dangerous - scattering it would be no worse than coal ash.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.