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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> In the mean time, because of low gas and oil prices, all new  
> exploration, new
> recovery technology, alternate energy, alternate transportation,  
> alteration
> of the ultimately doomed exburbs, will all be put on hold or dropped  
> entirely.

While waiting for grandson to wake up in Toronto I watched a very  
interesting television show about various alternative electricity  
production methods in Europe. One consists of four big tubes, perhaps  
ten feet in diameter and fifty feet long, that are connected together  
with flexibility to move with ocean waves. Each wave movement pushes a  
piston that is connected to a generator. The kilowatt production  
stated was impressive.

Another was a monolithic concrete wall at an ocean shoreline. The  
waves coming in slammed into a round opening that acted as a blowhole,  
pushing the water in and up a tunnel. The water action compressed air  
that turned a finned device that was connected to a generator. Even  
more impressive is that as the water wave recedes, it sucks air, which  
turns another impeller with reversed fins.

Both these devices are claimed to produce enough electricity to fully  
serve a large number of homes.

Consider that sixty or seventy percent of Americans live within a  
hundred miles of a coast.