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Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy
Julie188 writes "Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer, Michael Bernitsas, has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power. This is is the first known device that could harness energy from most of the water currents around the globe because it works in flows moving slower than 2 knots (about 2.3 miles per hour). Most of the Earth's currents are slower than 3 knots. Turbines and water mills need an average of 5 or 6 knots to operate efficiently. Further details and a few brief movies of the technology are available, as well as a video explanation by Professor Bernitsas himself."
I wonder if this technology would make my robot girlfriend wet...
River would read your mind and use her dance/fighting skills to prevent you from slowing down her water. All of the experiments the Alliance performed on her made her quite resistant to your attempted exploitation.
Fuck this god-damned nigger planet.