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Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power
Roland Piquepaille writes "UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which travel along the wall of a submersed rubber tube. These are then converted into flows of water passing through a turbine to generate electricity.' So far, the experiments have been done with tubes with diameters of 0.25 and 0.5 meters. But if the experiments are successful, future full-scale Anaconda devices would be 200 meters long and 7 meters in diameter, and deployed in water depths of between 40 and 100 meters. An Anaconda would deliver an output power of 1MW (enough to power 2,000 houses). These devices would be deployed in groups of 20 or even more providing cheap electricity without harming our environment."
'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which travel along the wall of a submersed rubber tube. These are then converted into flows of water passing through a turbine to generate electricity.'
and called the anaconda?
i don't know if this scheme will work, but hands down, that is the most sexual innuendo i've heard in an energy generation scheme in a long time
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
And has a fairly small footprint for a 20 Megawatt solution - might be a good fit for small to moderate coastal towns.
I just want to see the boat captain who wanders unknowingly into a field of these things at night. Snakes on a boat!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
motherfucking snake generators on the motherfucking grid!
"Actually putting a number on the rate of bird deaths is somewhat controversial, as its fairly difficult to count them, given that it happens so infrequently."
Clearly, we must build more wind farms so that we can gather more accurate data!
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Thank God someone finally gave Sir Mix-a-Lot the long overdue credit he richly deserves as a true environmentalist, humanitarian, and supporter of renewable bun energy extraction technologies. It's about time we broke the oil cartels' blockage on innovation and hooked up generators to all those pulsating rumps!
I say, let them do all the side bends and situps they want, since the calories expending in diminishing that rump will surely guide us into a new era of plentiful energy for all.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
Don't forget we're slowing the moon's orbit around the Earth which inevitably will lead to the moon falling into the Earth.
God spoke to me.
Oh I dont know, I seem to find the US population extremely dense, I mean they voted for Bush.....
Going nuclear would probably also help deal with that pesky overpopulation problem the GP was going on about.