Tidal Power and Clean Ocean Energy - Gavin Newsom

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/09/San_Francisco_Mayor_Gavin_Newsom_Cities_and_Time

Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor and 2010 California gubernatorial candidate, explains plans to build power-generating tidal platforms 5 miles off of San Francisco's coast, as well as an "inverted wind farm" under the Golden Gate Bridge. "Take the idea of a wind farm and put it underwater and now harness all the energy in that tidal flow," he explains.

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is a strong advocate for sustainable urban planning and green business practices; he lead San Francisco to join the Kyoto Protocol, created significant incentives for solar power installation through the GoSolarSF program, and is working on an ambitious plan to make SF the "Electric Vehicle Capital of the U.S."

He discusses his ideas and plans for shaping the growth of cities during these turbulent times. - The Long Now Foundation

Gavin Christopher Newsom is the current mayor of San Francisco. A Democrat, Newsom was elected mayor in 2003, succeeding Willie Brown and becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom graduated in 1989 from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. His PlumpJack Wine Shop, founded in 1992, grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise. He was first appointed by Willie Brown to serve on San Francisco's Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and was appointed the following year as Supervisor. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city assisted care. He defeated Matt Gonzalez by 6% in his race for mayor in 2003. Newsom was reelected in the November 7 2007 mayoral election with 72 percent of the vote.

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[Keylimedelight]

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

[cr3rzemJest]

ForaTV, you have the best videos on Youtube.

[Arkanj3l]

:P ahahaha

[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.

[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?

[dangermackie]

Show me the money!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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