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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."
Unless you got some realistic way of producing the energy required without a dependence on coal then I think you need to shut the fuck up.
This technology maybe something which could be useful unlike the useless technologies of the past such as solar which cost too much and don't produce enough.
Alan Moore "is a practising magician who worships a Roman snake deity named Glycon"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore
Fuck generators, on your knees for Glycon worship, cunts!
http://www.gnaa.us/Glycon_Gay_Nigger_Cult.php
fucking shit-eating shill. just shut your fucking hole. no one cares what the fuck you think. just go back to polluting the earth and voting republican bitch.
Might work, but I'm sure the eviroflakes will come up with some reason to hold it up. How it's anchored will offend someone. These clowns hold up every other way to produce energy!
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
If you believe that humans are causing the climate to change, the answer is fewer humans. Lots fewer.
Or the answer could be that each human should have less impact, starting with those with the MOST impact... the people in the USA.
There is a linear relationship between wealth and so-called "environmental impact". People in the U.S. pollute or generate more C02 emissions or whatever because they have more money. So your solution to the problem is making people poorer? Let me know how that works out for you. And, oh yeah, congratulations on turning 17, dumbass.
I only scored 35% on the Nerd Test, I'm sorry.