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2007-05-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Wave Power Tipped As Holy Grail For Australia

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Posted by 3dc 2007-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Compare to KOMMERSANT > Russian Ministry denies reports of strange [Terror?] blasts at three-plus NUKE POWER PLANTS in Southern Federal District. Locals worried. Officios claim blasts MAY had been due to local emergency response exercises.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-21 00:34|| 2007-05-21 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I normally trash these alternative energy projects as symbolic money and resource wasters, but wave power might be different. There is nothing new about the idea. It's been around for 30 or 40 years, but never proved until recently.

Like wind and solar, it's not an on demand energy source so you need substantial excess capacity. Hence, the link to desalination which would use the surplus electricity. Perth already has one desalination plant and is building a second.

Posted by phil_b 2007-05-21 00:39|| 2007-05-21 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't these fools understand there is no such thing as carbon neutral energy production? We need to "cull the herd", reduce energy consumption by 99% and return to pre-modern modes of production and transport.

If only there was a Dark Ages ideology we could make an alliance with to take power from global capitalism...

/"the left"

Posted by Excalibur 2007-05-21 08:07|| 2007-05-21 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 One reason sea wave energy hasn't been harnessed much to date is the O&M problem. This article did not address that issue at all.

Posted by mhw 2007-05-21 08:24|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-05-21 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 This sounds like one of those schemes like harnessing the tidal flow some years ago -- when they actually studied the effects of such harnessing, they found the change in the ecology was worse than the power plants they were supposed to replace.

Posted by sam3rd">sam3rd 2007-05-21 10:54|| 2007-05-21 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 "To the north there lies a cave-- the cave of Caerbannog-- wherein, carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Olfin Bedwere of Rheged...make plain the last resting place of the most Holy Grail."

Posted by Mike 2007-05-21 12:32|| 2007-05-21 12:32|| Front Page Top

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