Just as Verdant is harnessing the power of the East River, the energy of those agencies slowing or blocking development of free hydro will someday do an about face and expend their energy for sustainable energy promotion.
How would any civilization today improve on its power resources for clean power? Will coal last more than a century or two? Would nuclear and its dangerously lethal risks do the job? The answer is certainly no. It will take new technologies extracting and converting our God given natural resources into useable power.
Free water hydro can be used in the conversion of power whereever water currents flow, both in rivers and oceans. For fresh water sources, there is no need to hinder the natural flow of water which permits the movement of fish such as salmon to and from their breeding grounds with the construction of dams.
Dams are not the answer to efficient hydro power. They are expensive to build, prevent the deposit of sediment for farming during seasons of flooding, eventually are themselves blocked up by sediment and are both hazardous and costly to destroy. When we examine closely the complete life cycle of a dam, we see much to be desired.
Free hydro, on the other hand, does not require dams, does not require costly infrastructure investment except perhaps in the form of transmission lines along the river or from ocean sources.
The Federal Government has already passed regulations promoting transmission line system construction to those areas rich in wind power. It should do the same with respect to river power in a few years. Our government is cogniscent of the need for harnessing and harvesting both river and ocean sources. Right now it is more concerned with setting up rules and regulations governing offshore wind as well as for solar standards to be met as there is much dispute on implementation of offshore wind and solar is growing rapidly.
Later on, I am sure our government will turn to wave power, free current and Geothermal regulations which should then, at that time, be expanding at a rate commensurate to that of the present growth rate of land wind and solar.
We need all forms of sustainable energy to be developed. As the clock slowly but relentlessly ticks down on fossil sources, we really do not have much of a choice. It is renewable, sustainable development or go back to horse energy in a century or two. Time really goes faster than we might realize and now, not later, is the time to take action.
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Submitted on May 5th, 2007 by InterestedReaderJust as Verdant is harnessing the power of the East River, the energy of those agencies slowing or blocking development of free hydro will someday do an about face and expend their energy for sustainable energy promotion.
How would any civilization today improve on its power resources for clean power? Will coal last more than a century or two? Would nuclear and its dangerously lethal risks do the job? The answer is certainly no. It will take new technologies extracting and converting our God given natural resources into useable power.
Free water hydro can be used in the conversion of power whereever water currents flow, both in rivers and oceans. For fresh water sources, there is no need to hinder the natural flow of water which permits the movement of fish such as salmon to and from their breeding grounds with the construction of dams.
Dams are not the answer to efficient hydro power. They are expensive to build, prevent the deposit of sediment for farming during seasons of flooding, eventually are themselves blocked up by sediment and are both hazardous and costly to destroy. When we examine closely the complete life cycle of a dam, we see much to be desired.
Free hydro, on the other hand, does not require dams, does not require costly infrastructure investment except perhaps in the form of transmission lines along the river or from ocean sources.
The Federal Government has already passed regulations promoting transmission line system construction to those areas rich in wind power. It should do the same with respect to river power in a few years. Our government is cogniscent of the need for harnessing and harvesting both river and ocean sources. Right now it is more concerned with setting up rules and regulations governing offshore wind as well as for solar standards to be met as there is much dispute on implementation of offshore wind and solar is growing rapidly.
Later on, I am sure our government will turn to wave power, free current and Geothermal regulations which should then, at that time, be expanding at a rate commensurate to that of the present growth rate of land wind and solar.
We need all forms of sustainable energy to be developed. As the clock slowly but relentlessly ticks down on fossil sources, we really do not have much of a choice. It is renewable, sustainable development or go back to horse energy in a century or two. Time really goes faster than we might realize and now, not later, is the time to take action.
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