-=> Lee Lofaso wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 LL> I'd like to see a bunch of wind farms placed in the Gulf of Mexico
 LL> to capture all the wind power created by hurricanes when they come
 LL> roaring through.  Just think how much energy could be generated if
 LL> we could find a way to harness it all.

You know what might be better and possibly easier to implement is wave 
power.  If there was a way to harness the wave energy from the sea 
during such storms and actually store all of that physical energy to 
electrical energy, that could be a massive boon for many areas to be 
well-served.

When I was young, my parents had land with a babbling stream in it.  
There was a tiny waterfall where I put a 12VDC generator from a VW Bug 
with two ping-pong balls sliced in half, the halves arranged to where 
the falling water would catch in the "cups" and turn the generator's 
shaft.  Believe it or not, that little generator put out enough energy 
to power a standard automotive tail light bulb for me to read at night 
with just fine (we were homesteading on land and didn't have electricity 
wired up yet).

That's a good idea.

Later,
Sean
 
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