Re: Wow squared, pstuart
Posted by bobbapink on Aug 20, 2002 at 10:56
(208.58.228.2)Re: Wow squared, pstuart (pstuart)
instead of having a dam causing a height or
header potential for hydro power usage (like
Hoover) dig a Chunnel hydro tunnel (mega jobs
and profits for the company who dares and
cares!) along side the river, all invisible to
the eyes, tap in to water at a high level mark
whenever there is a healthy supply, like
Niagara, the river floes without causing damage
to the ecosystem. At the end of the hydro
chunnel place the generators, water having a
head charge, of lets say many meters will
produce very clean electricity. Comprende?While there is not theoretically impossible about your suggestion, it is just so impractical as to not be worthwhile. The cost of the building and maintaining the project is far less than the possible profit from the sale of insignificant output. A better idea is to take advantage of ocean tidal forces. IIRC, a six or eight foot difference in tidal forces is necessary to make it worthwhile. This idea is being played with in a few places but it is riddled with problems as well: Interference with shipping lanes and turbine maintenance the greatest (ever clean barnacles off a boat?). Given the abundance of alternate sources, (nuclear, oil, coal), this idea isn’t likely to ever catch on big and will remain, I think, an interesting historical note of human misachievement.
Regarding the solar panels, see post at top of forum Titled: Economics: The Forbidden Soft Science. It's worth talking about.
Lightning rods placed at ideal locations may
extract some of the few thousand lightning hitting
your area. Mega Capacitors (to be invented???)
holds power for usage.When someone invents the “mega capacitors”, come talk to me. Cheers to you too.
Follow Ups:
- Re: Wow squared, pstuart Southern Man 21/8 07:45 (0)