The Great Republican Hope

Date: Still Friday in Tucson
Time: Late, I'm too old fir this
Place: Back Home, Finally

The other day I mentioned the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project. Senator Lisa Murkatowski of Alaska (you know you're old when you think a US Senator looks that HOTT!) mentions it frequently in special session on CSPAN. Others ignore it (Chuck and Hillary, I'm looking at you!). The current on the east side of Roosevelt Island, or "East Channel" as we locals call it, is damn fast. A company called Verdant Power tried to install some underwater propellors to capture the power, but the blades on both protototype turbines snapped. Those are some powerful currents.

This is an example of lunar power. National concensus will admit that for at least the last 5000 years, the moon has rolled by overhead, lifted the oceans up by three feet and dropped them.
The world is awash in free energy, we just have to get better at harvesting it. Anyway, the next four turbines (with enhanced blades) will be going down in April. To me, every turn of the blade drags back some greenhouse gas back ino the ocean. Every turn of the blade is a strike for American engineers and manufacturers. Best of all, each turn of the blade points an upraised middle finger to all the oil powers from Prince Abdullah to Osama to Dick Cheney.