Hello Sean,

 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.

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

The tidal forces generated by the Moon are nothing to sneeze at.
Without the Moon, I doubt there would be intelligent life on this
planet.  We use turbines, the energy derived from running water.
In theory, the same can be done on a massive scale from tides.

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

Multiply that by a thousandfold and think of what it could power.

 SD> That's a good idea.

Many good ideas come from overlooking the obvious.

--Lee

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