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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[wont last... salt will eat it up within 5 years...   good college try...   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sthlm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 2:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Let's see....the Titanic sank in 1912, was made of iron, and its stern still sits upright on the bottom of the Atlantic. I'm no expert, but if that ocean liner can sit 4 to 5 miles under for 98 years without disinegrating, I'm pretty confident that this turbine, made from modern materials, and actually designed to be submerged in the ocean can last more than 5 years. A little common sense before you comment goes a long way. Nice elementary school try though.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 3:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's all constructed of stainless steel, carbon fiber and silicone composit...WILL last more than 5 years.  Question is, as with other designs worldwide, how long will it stand the stresses?  Water is 800 times the density of air and as such exerts the same increased stresses.  Tidal flow is the most dependable cycle on earth, the sun can be obscured by clouds for solar, the wind may not blow for mills, coal and oil pollute, nuclear has a life span and waste issues, but the moon always goes round and round, rain or shine, dark or bright.  Harness the tides and currents and many of your/our issues are addressed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Duane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 4:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[The titanic isnt rusted away because there  is no disolved oxygen at that depth.Water doesnt rust things. oxygen does. salt will corrode metal though rapidly. Well see what happens? My favorite line of any given product that just came out is...garenteed to last forever! if it hasnt been tested forever....how can they make that claim? usualy they back peddle after it fails! Im up for a good idea i dont care where it comes from! sounds like a plan to me!?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tailgatecaterers]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 8:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Give the boys in Metallurgy a little credit. This is brilliant tech, pure green.  Only a Republican oilbiz lackey could object. <br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jamesnpost]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 2:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[I second your comment..  ^5. <br><br>Amazing to read comments from those acting like Geo Physycists.  The IQ of duuuuh is a painful condition to have.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 5:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Salt will not eat it up if the blades are made of composits, like Doty-Rotol aircraft propellers.  Gaskets will keep the sea water out of the generator, whose housing can be made of composits too.  Sounds like a good idea to me.  Although the tides pause before reversing, they will generate electricity forever, because tide don't get used up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry Hurt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 2:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Curious...  wonder what effect all these sea and wind devices will have on the movement of water and winds all over the world as we build more and more?  Imagine 50 yrs from now and we discover we've slowed down the earth's rotation? or some other 'imaginable' dramatic..  unfixable.. impact????]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JamieOnJI]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 3:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you go to www.openhydro.com you will see another underwater turbine in development and one already tested in the same region of Scotland is already hooked to the grid there.  This type turbine also has been put into the Bay of Fundy offshore from Nova Scotia.  These turbines are still in the developmental stages and some bugs still have to ironed out of them, but they look very probable for the future.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dlsduane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 3:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[What a waste of money !  Even Queen Elizabeth ordered one dinosaur just like this one for the palace; and here our start-up company has invented 8 foot bladed turbines that can be transported on a pick-up truck, that put out four times the generated power than this and the GE $2M 1940's technology wind turbines and one would think that our governement would be intetrested ?  No, after attempting to contact the members of the commerece and energy commission, (Congressman Ralph Hall, then Congresssman Burgess), and even Secretary of Energy - Mr. Chu, we've discovered that American polititcians will not embrace Green Energy too soon, for we are too steeped in fossil fuel interests !<br><br>Our government went so far as setting up this Mr. T. Boone Pickens as our icon of "why it doesn't work" to fool us all:<br><br>It's been all over the news how Picken's $2 BILLION dollar wind-farm, (consisting of 667 GE turbines, on 110 acres in Pampa, Texas) has "transmission issues" and so I landed on Picken's doorstep last Septemeber, only to discover that T. Boone spent ONLY $60 MILLION of his own money on this project, and guess who foot the bill for the rest ?....and it sits idle to this day !!!<br><br>Pickens was not interested in our technology - even though our inventor has already implemented inventions that are in use at Boeing, The Pentagon, and yes, even in the White House !  In return for playing the stooge, Pickens was appointed chairman of the world's largest natural gas board, and along with his many oil interests, he happens to own quite a bit of natural gas land !  SURPRISE !!!<br><br>Anyone interested in additional and verifiable information may contact me at consultantmail@aol.com.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ANTHONY]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 3:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[And even slack tide can be addressed with a flywheel system that stores a percent of the kinetic energy until maximum rpm is achieved after the turn.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Duane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 4:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[why so much time, money, and energy [no pun intended] wasted on inefficient technologies such as turbines when the Bloom box exists? people wake up and check out cheap and efficient electrical production which also doesn't take up a lot of land or interrupt the ecology.   Google Bloom box !]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[karen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 4:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Right now Bloom Box's are $700,000 plus... Even Bloom  admits that residential applications are 5 maybe 10 years in the future.. but someday.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Talo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 6:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Stand still, laddie!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ead17]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 5:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[We've had submerged hydro machines for years and some in brakish water too.  They hold up well and some take a lot of stress.  Pump storage machines take a real beating but operate for years and years within its predicable repair cycles,  No reason to believe a submerged turbine would behave any different.  Now if it were exposed to air on a continuous cycle, I might be nervous but submerged might do just fine.  (look at our submarines and their propellers - how often do you think they are removed and repaired?  Not often if at all..  It is materials and cathodic protection which will insure the unit will remain sound. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[KMA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 5:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Cathodic protection in the form of sacrificial anodes like on boats or (most likely) some even better technology than used to protect the thousands of seawater immersed applications we already employ today. They have the know-how to build this monster..... I seriously doubt they missed the need to deal with corrosion... or a plan on how. Think Submarines.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Talo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 5:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is to Mike who commented that the Titanic is been sitting at the bottom of the ocean and that still standing, well Mike , either you are stupid or misinformed, fyi, the Titanic is crumbling due to the effect of the salt water, and some day it will be a pile of rubble.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[loptroz31]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 5:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[This thing will make the chop-o-matic look like a wimp when it slices and dices a whale and a few dolphins. Seafood Tartar anyone?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[doug]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 6:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[Mike the Titanic has not rotted away because in order to rust or rot away it needs OXYGEN, something thats not at the bottom of the ocean floor!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cvpi2136]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 6:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on World's Largest Tidal Turbine Getting Anchored off Scotland's Chilly Coast]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/08/13/worlds-largest-tidal-turbine-getting-anchored-off-scotlands-ch/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think its awesome and a better idea than coal or oil. Oh, and the titanic already is a pile of rubble and has been since 1912.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenny50]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 15th 2010 7:14PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
