Bermuda gets world's first underwater turbine generator - GreenHybrid

Sledge · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 08:20 AM

Cool

http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/...NEWS/102140147

Delta Flyer · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 08:30 AM

I hope there will be a lot more of these.

I was thinking about The University of Alabama "Crimson Tide"

tbaleno · #3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 08:38 AM

Not bad. I suspect though that animals will start growing on it and will have to be periodicaly scraped off.

Hot_Georgia_2004 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 01:33 PM

Hey! I think this is a great idea.
If this really takes off....which I hope it does.....

This brings to mind the wind turbine project of Nantucket Sound:

Quote:

Cape Wind is a proposal for America’s first offshore wind farm to be located on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, six miles offshore Hyannis Port, Cape Cod.
Cape Wind will provide three-quarters of the electricity used on Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in average conditions.

http://www.capewind.org/article108.htm

I'd bet scientists would shut it down because they believe it bothers some benign species due to minute changes in ocean currents, mechanical noise etc.