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Underwater Ocean Currents Used to Power Bermuda
Saevio writes to tell us The Royal Gazette is reporting that Bermuda is planning to sink a power generator off the coast to take advantage of ocean currents. The company providing the service, Belco predicts that they will be able to provide approximately 10 percent of the island's energy needs. From the article: "The 150ft long deep sea generator with a four-blade turbine inside would cut Belco's dependency on oil and also benefit the environment by cutting future fuel emissions, he added, stating that the company needed to increase its generating capacity before 2010. Mr. Madeiros, who hailed the technology 'mind-boggling', said: 'This is cutting edge technology, not used anywhere else. One can't help but get excited by this technology.'"
Just how many current-surfing turtles and fish can we expect to be missing from Finding Nemo 2 because they get swept into the four turbines?
Power generator mysteriously vanised in the Bermuda sea!
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I prefer to say "current" technology.
I suppose this begs the question if they are going to be alternating currents or just using a direct one.
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What will be the impact of this on the performance of the triangle? I wouldn't want to see halves of ships dissapparing all of a sudden, because there isn't enough power...
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More like Grinding Nemo...
...carrier dead.....
What you'll notice in a generation or two when the climate changes is a breakdown of the gulf-stream, causing the turbine to no longer work.
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The use of tidal currents will result in a gravatational drag on the moon. Over a long enough time period, the moon will begin to spiral closer and closer to the earth, finally crashing into the planet.