Now please can someone explain to me why more ideas like these don't get full play and funding in a world where our addiction to oil seems to be at the heart of so many of our problems. Of course I already know the answer to that question but I like the way it makes my head explode just to ask.
All the damage these things will do is maybe chop up a few fish until they learn to avoid them. (you got 7/10ths of the planet to roam you stupid fish). You can put them in places that are remote and still generate all the power we could ever need.
What's that you are saying? How will the oil companies and Saudi princes maintain their wealth and power? Why should I care? The princes employ only servants and the oil companies pay for bad employees, bad ideas, bad influence, and bad advice. Hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings there.
"A Swedish start-up company called Minestro is developing a system for harvesting energy from ocean currents. “Deep Green” consists of kites and turbines anchored to the ocean floor:
When operational, the turbine is expected to generate 500 kilowatts of power.
One of the big advantages of their technology, Minesto executives say, is its small size — 12 meters for the wingspan and one meter for the turbine — relative to other tidal-energy designs.
The company hope to begin trials of a scale model in 2011 at Strangford Lough, in County Down, Northern Ireland — which is already home to a commercial tidal power device operated by UK renewable energy company, SeaGen."
