[SoldierMedic]

ping!

[TRY ONE]

Join the Navy and ride the waves. :-)

[Cicero]

Clark said the underwater buoy poses no threat to the environment.

Well, that's a relief. Although the Dungeness Crab Commission begs to differ.

[subterfuge]

"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?

[I see my hands]

Did you hear the one about the English guy, the Pope, and Raquel Welch in a lifeboat?

[mikeus_maximus]

oops.

[RSmithOpt]

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?

[day10]

Doh!!

[maine-iac7]

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...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

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.

[NonValueAdded]

LOST!

[PAR35]

The company plans to recover the $2 million buoy next spring

At that price, it might be worth a salvage effort. Wonder if it's still going to be there by spring?

[Aquinasfan]

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?

[Badeye]

ROTFLMAO!

Reminds me of that baby seal(?) that was helped, released and then swallowed by a whale while the do gooders filmed it.

[Just another Joe]

I'm sorry, but BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I just couldn't help it.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

http://finavera.com/en/wavetech/aquabuoymovie

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

A number of years ago (pre global warming) I saw plans for a device which looked fairly promising and has since disappeared. The power unit consisted of a string of floats tethered offshore on one end and hinged together so they could flex as a wave passed lengthwise down the float. The flexing action alternately extended and retracted cylinders in each float which pumped water through a series of check valves. The floats seemed to be fairly simple and looked to be rugged enough to survive unattended service. The water was delivered to a low head turbine on shore which powered a generator, keeping all the electrical plant out of the water. As I said before, nothing ever came of this device, maybe it was ahead of it's time?

Regards,
GtG

[VOA]

The company plans to recover the $2 million buoy next spring,
when the ocean calms

So, how much do they have to pay in fines to the EPA for messing
up the ocean floor?

And what about all the little ocean creatures that will be dispossessed
when the buoy is unceremoniously wrenched from it's place on the
ocean floor?

(/sarc...just found myself channeling the brainwaves of most
"ecologists" and "environmental-law legal specialists")

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

They need to find a jetty that creates a reliable riptide and engineer a housed water turbine to catch flow of the returning tide. That way you can work on land, don’t have to get barges to haul stuff out to sea, risk becoming a hazard to navigation, and lose your generator to storms and sinking.

[FormerACLUmember]

The company plans to recover the $2 million buoy next spring, when the ocean calms...

And they need a bouy to learn if there is energy in the ocean?