Tidal Power and Clean Ocean Energy - Gavin Newsom

[scielle]

Urgh... this man makes me cringe. I'm all for the idea, but watching him is like watching Tom Cruise in Magnolia - deeply disturbing and downright sleazy.  Really, they need a better spokesman.

[dangermackie]

Show me the money!

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[sirbata]

Awsome thinking... now i just need to think like Tesla and figure out how to use the social energy to not loose my house.

[Krumbz2003]

I love the idea of capturing the energy of Ocean waves etc.

I recently watched a two hour special on it and to be honest... this is the future.

Of course there are still minor questions to be asked and results to discover but the template is there... and America is BEHIND on this one.

President Obama has some really interesting ideas and concepts on how and why we should look towards renewable, safe energies such as Ocean powered turbines.

[WarOnWind]

It is so sad they build these things. They kill birds and bats. When they provide power, they just put another power plant on standby, meaning the power plant still burns fuel but doesn't provide power. They put the power plants on standby because the power the provide fluctuates and it takes 2-3 days to restart a coal-fire power plant. Wind and solar wont work with our grid and current technology. Investments in solar and wind only increase everyone's electric bill. Nuclear is the future

[74VDC]

Nuclear is almost certainly part of the future. Your power plant standby "theory" is only partially valid. If you are curious as to why I say "partially" you need to do some study and research into how our grid system operates. There are so many things that can and are (everyday) done to account for load/supply variables. You anti-wind guys think you are the only ones who have any answers. In reality, the inverse is true.

[Arkanj3l]

Nuclear is still very unsustainable. Incredibly efficient pound for pound, but unsustainable due to waste biproducts, the fact that new nuclear plants have to be built every 15 or so years (that's probably changing as the tech becomes more reliable and less likely to break down), and uranium (which is our most proficient nuclear fuel) is itself a limited resource. We'd have peak oil all over again, nuclear is a stopgap.

Plus there's the battery problem. How do we store it efficiently?

[74VDC]

Few more things...Nothing, absolutely NOTHING will increse your electric bill like nuclear will...it is far more expensive per watt than any other source of power save for photovoltaics. #2 ALL power production requires backup from others whether it's fossil fuel, nukes, wind, solar thermal, geothermal...whatever. Again, there is some merit in your comments, but this is a very complex and very important issue that must be solved. Wind, hydro, NG, Geo will all be part of the equation..nukes too.

[Arkanj3l]

Basically this. The thing is once petrol runs out (this is a fact), then we won't have materials to build these power stations with. In the end these are all still oil derivatives and until we know how to create lightweight materials without the help of oil (basically a plastic substitute, or better recycled plastic), then we need to act fast, or even this version of the future will be impossible.

[cr3rzemJest]

ForaTV, you have the best videos on Youtube.

[billybobby800]

educational as well =D

[geppebrillo]

mmmhhh

[limonare]

Great good idea !!!

[amozlee]

very good idea... anyone knows how to prevent sea lions from getting sucked in?

[Keylimedelight]

those sea lions would kill you and your whole family if they could. We must suck them into generators before they can act.

[Arkanj3l]

:P ahahaha

[ossowiecki]

This fellows outfit reminds me of Wallstreet.

can't be trusted.

[OneoftheImmortals]

Yay Lofty Goals!

Mayor Gavin Newsom is the wave of the future!!!

[papeluso]

According to the local San Francisco Guardian Newspaper, the tidal wave construction project may kill at least 7 construction workers if not more in order to complete it.

Furthermore, to get San Franciscans to swith from PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) you, or the next SF administration, will probably have to FORCE it be done.

Finally, the tidal wave project won't produce nearly as much energy as oil, gas and nuclear does now.

YOU ARE WORTHLESS MAYOR NEWSON!

[bryandenehy76]

this guy looks like a morman

[Plutonwolf]

There are many ways to utilize the energy in the seas, this is good, there are even better!

[UnderseaCaveman]

Pluton,

Mahalo for sending me this video....

Great idea for San Fran (I used to be stationed in Alameda, when the USS Carl Vinson was "San Fransisco's Own")....especially the tidal turbines!

Thanks again Buddy! Aloha, UC

[Plutonwolf]

Oh lord! The Carl Vinson? I used to work with the biggest nut I ever met who was stationed on that ship! Did you know anyone that clocked an officer with a spanner?

All joking aside, there are many sites where tidal turbines could really generate some serious electricity! I worked at Portsmouth in N. H. on the Piscataqua, that particular tidal exchange could be as good as any three Nukes!!!

[UnderseaCaveman]

Ouch, sounds like a Machinist Mate, I was in the Reactor Dept... (zoomies, "glow in the dark"...LOL).

Yeah, I do like that idea of putting turbines in the "narrows", good point ... there's probably many opportunities (especially further from the equator...seems tides get bigger the further away... I should know why... but forgot..:)

[Plutonwolf]

Give the man a cigar! Right in one! Mikey was a machinists mate. He also was our lead Mechanical Maintenance man and his work, at best, was suspect. His calibration tool? A three pound hand maul.

Take a look at that point (Portsmouth N H) on Google Earth and notice the huge bay sited inland behind the extremely tight river mouth!

And I think it has something to do with the Coriolis effect, but it has been ages since I read about that, don't bet money on that call LOLOL

[ubuibiok]

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