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Test buoy for wave energy sinks off Oregon coast
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Posted on 11/01/2007 11:27:45 AM PDT by SoldierMedic
NEWPORT, Ore. The first wave energy test buoy deployed off the Oregon Coast is now 150 feet below the ocean surface.
Mike Clark, a spokesman for Finavera Renewables, a Canadian energy developer, said the 72-foot-tall buoy began taking on water late last week and sank just one day before engineers were going to remove it.
The company plans to recover the $2 million buoy next spring, when the ocean calms, Clark told The Oregonian newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: energy; wave
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To: Uncledave
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:28:39 AM PDT
by
SoldierMedic
(Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
To: SoldierMedic
Join the Navy and ride the waves. :-)
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:30:12 AM PDT
by
TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
To: SoldierMedic
Clark said the underwater buoy poses no threat to the environment. Well, that's a relief. Although the Dungeness Crab Commission begs to differ.
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:30:42 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: SoldierMedic
"We've got a big chunk of iron laying at the bottom of the ocean which will probably gobble up a bunch of crab gear," he said. "It's just another place for things to collect and make a big mess." Well the ocean floor should always be nice and tidy right?
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:34:12 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(HILLARY IS: She who must not be Dismayed)
To: SoldierMedic
Did you hear the one about the English guy, the Pope, and Raquel Welch in a lifeboat?
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To: SoldierMedic
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:35:39 AM PDT
by
mikeus_maximus
(CAIR delende est.)
To: subterfuge
If this was off the East Coast, the wreck fishing crowd would want it left there.
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:35:51 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: SoldierMedic
Man, I hate it when my buoy sinks!! Mankind has only been building them for how long? Was the buoy made in China? Too much lead?
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:37:08 AM PDT
by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: SoldierMedic
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:38:15 AM PDT
by
day10
(Rules cannot substitute for character.)
To: SoldierMedic
ummm - well, ahhh
Why would one expect that something plopped in the middle of the ocean in high wave territory would take on water'? No need to design it so's it wouldn't 'take on water'...what's 72 million, give or take a dollar...
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:41:21 AM PDT
by
maine-iac7
("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
To: maine-iac7
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:46:37 AM PDT
by
enraged
To: SoldierMedic
72-foot-tall??
That’s not an eye sore?
Build oil wells and extract oil from the coast of CA and Gulf of Mexico instead.
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:47:17 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: maine-iac7
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:49:17 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
long. It doesn’t stick up that far.
To: SoldierMedic
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:52:29 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: SoldierMedic
The company plans to recover the $2 million buoy next springAt that price, it might be worth a salvage effort. Wonder if it's still going to be there by spring?
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posted on
11/01/2007 11:57:10 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
If it’s heavy enough, I don’t see it moving too far from where it is now.
Besides, if they were smart they probably attached some sort of beacon or GPS to it in case it drifted away, or sank.
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posted on
11/01/2007 12:00:08 PM PDT
by
SoldierMedic
(Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
To: SoldierMedic
If its heavy enough, I dont see it moving too far from where it is now.Depends on how big of a crane you put on your salvage tug.
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posted on
11/01/2007 12:03:09 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: SoldierMedic
You could gather a lot of energy from ocean waves by floating huge weights over a large area in shallow waters. As a wave rolls by, the weight would ratchet up a pole. At its apex, the weight would remain in place. When the wave hits its trough, the weight would be released, driving a turbine... Then I thought, someone must have thought of this already. And
they have.
This seems to me like a very efficient, almost inexhaustible supply of energy. So why hasn't it happened yet? Too expensive, relatively?
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posted on
11/01/2007 12:04:26 PM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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