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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gas Prices
  • Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:11:55 -0700

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.





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