RE: So what now do we do?

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> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Jan de Koning
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:38 PM

> (after I pointed out that all of us are using too much energy all the
> time. Now for example we have 6 lights burning inside our house)
> that reducing consumption is not enough. And I agree, but,
> still, it would
> be a great thing if we in N.America tried to use less. I know how
> difficult it is, but . . .
> Secondly, I have for a long time not heard about wind power, and
> I remember
> that a few years ago I heard about the use of the ocean tides to
> get power.
> My question to the experts is: if we use that on a large scale
> what can be
> done.

In Scotland they tried to generate electricity via wave power. The
engineers duly went out into the Atlantic, set anchor pilons and tied wave
energy generators. They lasted precisely as long as it took for the first
Atlantic storm to come by. They were ripped off the ocean floor and
destroyed.

There are a few tidal power generators around, but the problem is that there
are too few places to put these things, they interfere with fish, with
navigation etc.
Received on Thu Dec 4 21:59:29 2003