In Search of New Power Source, City Looks Underwater
They look like underwater windmills. And in late August, when six of them are dropped into the rapid currents of the East River alongside Roosevelt Island, these giant "tidal turbines" will begin harvesting about 150 kilowatts of electricity.
If all goes well, an entire underwater wind farm of 200 to 300 sleek 15-feet-tall turbines will discreetly spin under the surface of the river by 2006, providing about 10 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 8,000 homes.
Verdant Power is the company that will be installing the turbines.
Very cool project, looks environmentally friendly and reasonnably cost efficient!!! unfortunatly it looks like it can only be built in rivers that have a very fast current.
fourth strike targeting suspected Zarqawi hideouts in Falluja
Reuters - U.S. Says Attacks Zarqawi Safehouse in Falluja
U.S. forces attacked what they said was a safehouse belonging to Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Thursday, killing at least six people in Iraq's most rebellious city.
In the fourth strike targeting suspected Zarqawi hideouts in Falluja in the past two weeks, a U.S. plane fired a missile overnight that witnesses said reduced the building to rubble.
why don't we save ourselves some trouble and drop a few dozen
daisy cutters over the town and get it over with. what's a little more "collateral damage" amongst friends?
