Wave power
Bob Morris @ Dec 15th 2006 00:08 - Category: Renewable energy
A New Zealand company is proposing “to generate electricity with 200 tidal-powered turbines submerged at the entrance to the Kaipara Harbour.” It’ll be enough for 250,000 homes, and the largest project of its kind anywhere.
Power doesn’t get much more renewable than from ocean waves!
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paradoctor on 15 Dec 2006 at 11:55 am #
I call ‘renewable’ energy “owned power”. The idea is that once you have the turbines in place, the energy flow you get from it is yours, you own it, you get to keep it. I call the other kind of energy “rented power”; an energy flow that requires a cash flow.
I think the transition from rented power to owned power will be turbulent, difficult, expensive and inevitable as the transition from hunting/gathering to agriculture.