Wave power:

[applegrove]

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[defacto7]

1. It would be interesting to know

how it works, power output, cost to build, what it's made of, life expectancy, and environmental impact.

[applegrove]

2. Yes because they could go almost anywhere on the coast. I'd like to hear more.

[guillaumeb]

3. Quebec Province started using wave generation years ago.

The US could do the same thing.

But the fossil fuel and nuclear industries would oppose this.

[applegrove]

4. Did not know that. Interesting.

[guillaumeb]

5. They were testing it years ago.

I do not know how much power is produced, but the St Laurence river area has very strong tides.

[applegrove]

6. Those are tides. There are just ocean waves, the up and down, that are being harnessed.

[guillaumeb]

8. And when the tide comes in, the river moves up and down with the wave action.

They were testing units in the St Laurence and as the tide rose, the units moved vertically.

[applegrove]

10. Wow! I must have been under a rock. Good for Quebec. They are often

way ahead of the game in canada.

[guillaumeb]

11. But if we talked about HydroQuebec nationalizing the private energy suppliers

in the 1940s, many would call that creeping socialism.

Canada is showing the way in many areas.

[applegrove]

12. Yes. Quebec does so many things right. The dams do cause a huge methane

release when they flood such vast areas, but after a generation they are not bad for the environment.

[KT2000]

7. The US government poured money into

all things nuclear, including generation of electricity. These alternatives may get grants here and there but it is nothing like what other sources of energy have been given by our government.

[applegrove]

9. Yes. It is terrible they are subsidizing fossil fuel.