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- scooterbaga, on 07/06/2008, -2/+59That's what she said.
- jhackg0d, on 07/07/2008, -6/+42^^^ I want these ***** snakes out of my ***** ocean
- blueskydiver76, on 07/07/2008, -7/+42Please...no mother ***** comments about ***** snakes in the ***** ocean.
- yogiincork, on 07/07/2008, -0/+13FTA: "A full-scale device would be able to generate enough power for 1,000 homes..."
- hughsie23, on 07/07/2008, -1/+12ave had with these mother ***** snakes in this mother ***** wave tank!
- protodon, on 07/07/2008, -1/+10It's not the size of the snake but the motion in the ocean
- zephc, on 07/07/2008, -5/+14My anaconda don't want none unless you make a megawatt hun
- FeargusMcDuff, on 07/07/2008, -1/+9Can anyone put 1megawatt into a context of some sort please?
- Greengoo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Doc, you said we need plutonium to generate the 1.21 Jigawatts of energy...
ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE JIGAWATTS?? GREAT SCOTT! - sindrit, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt#Megawatt
- inactive, on 12/07/2008, -5/+12Huh huh,she said 'bulge.'
- hypnotoad32, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6Is it the size of the snake, or is it the motion of the ocean?
- duk0r, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6Hi welcome to Digg. Go ***** yourself.
- Awap, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5Most major solar projects don't use PV for exactly that reason. They use mirrors to focus sunlight on a boiler which powers a traditional steam generator.
- Hetman, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5As a stupid retarded enviromentalist, I have to point out that this will kill fish. And that is horrible because fish are such complex organisms.
- justice7, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4in this case, it's a bit of both.
- vestlandsfanden, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3But will this make wave energy a viable option to solve the worlds energy troubles?
- Aldhelm, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3Are they crazy? Now badgers won't go near the sea.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3Why would it kill fish? If the sections don't pinch too tightly, it's just a large body moving with the ocean. There are no propellers either.
Seems like they would use it as shelter like a kelp bed. You'd have to have a LOT of these, before there were any issue. - aladrin, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4Actually, you have a point there. Current solar panels barely last long enough to produce as much energy as it took to make them. Pushing for solar energy right now is not only useless, it's detrimental to the earth. They should be pushing for solar research instead. (And maybe they are, and just fail to state it as such... That's just as bad, as it harms their cause for no good reason.)
- pdbailey, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3There is a big hiccup they mentioned but did not draw attention to: they have to match the generator's materials and diameter to the waves, so it will only work well in certain conditions. If the tube isn't just right then the waves will move down it at a different rate than the pulses and they will not get a multiplier effect. It's like having a wind turbine that works at exactly one wind speed.
- plokij909, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3Then don't
- CrimsonBlur, on 07/07/2008, -2/+5"A full-scale device would be able to generate enough power for 1,000 homes"
Edit - oops, Yogi beat me to it. :) - phosphite, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4I got a snake, man!
One time I fed it some beer man! It was slithering this way and that! It was all ***** up! - bunki8, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Another article with some more info:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/08070 ... - serif69, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2As someone who hates stupid retarded environmentalists, I have to point out that fish are delicious.
- acroyear2, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2I've heard of the idea of turbines underwater for a while. When I hear such exciting developments for ways of generating energy I'm always shocked at how the U.S. doesn't jump on some of these developments. From a nerd standpoint, it would ***** rock to have weird, fascinating new technologies creating power. I want wind powered cars, snake turbines, all of it.
- Harabeck, on 07/07/2008, -5/+7You mean jigawatt? That thing is far too awesome for mere megawatts.
- thcobbs, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Don't complaing Knights... it could have been instant rimjob....
- CrimsonBlur, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2Not by itself. But we also have wind, solar and geothermal. ;)
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Cool, but the image is upside down.
- mark101, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I saw a TV show where they were deploying them. Not exactly the same model though. Don't know how long they survived.
- M724, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1This could be disturbing if you insert sexual overtones. It's also quite funny.
- lecturethis, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2I think this is the technology that powers Tommy Lee's house and the 8 blocks surrounding his home
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http://jeniya.info - iJessicaRabbit, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2If I saw that thing when I was scuba diving I'd probably have a full blown panic attack. Those things are scary!!!!!!!
- CptBuck, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Snakes...why'd it have to be snakes...
- gnarlee, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1She sounds like Zadi Diaz
- Armitage2k, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but the mongoose will!
- pikolus, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0why are you pitching these ideas to all of us idiots instead of the people that designed the damn thing?
All we are going to do is flame/spam you, or just reply with some snake-creating-MW-of-power sexually driven comment. - system5y, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1dugg for "huge rubber snake"
- VitriolAndAngst, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1Being that have a great brain for invention but not one for making money off of them, I envision a snake made of sectioned Capillaries. Instead of getting one bulge along the length of the snake, a series of two sectioned chambers along the length of the snake, would force one side to always be contracting, and another to expand. The force moving from one chamber to the other can push a rotor. If you just made the whole snake to push fluid at one end, then you'd lose a lot of motion energy because parts would be causing turbulence, as different areas are contracting or expanding at the same time. So, with capillaries, you only have an area that is contracting with an adjacent one expanding and you capture the flow between them.
Here is a graphic; 8=8
Instead of a flexible material which would have a lot of wear and tear, you could use "plunger and drums" and enough of these would allow for flexibility.
I haven't read the article, but this is how I would do it. I could invent ten things like this a day, but it wouldn't make me any money because nobody pays me to think. If I could deal with lots of bits of papers and kriptonite -- well, then I'd be an entrepreneur. It's kind of frustrating.
>> If this were just capturing current flow, then you could just use a giant corkscrew -- in the shape of a nautical shell (large outer arc moving to small inner arc, with concave surface to force water to push it)? The current will push it to line up with the flow, and the motion of water moving past can turn it, and then move a turbine with a high gear ratio -- lots less moving parts than a flexible tube meant to push water internally. But, there is a lot more wave energy in more places, than a strong flowing current, I presume. I suppose there is no reason why you couldn't have both the segmented snake, and the corkscrew shape and capture both wave and current flow.
>> These should be pretty to watch. I suppose that they get more by wave motion than current.
>> Barnacles should not be too much of a problem. The wave motion is a rising and falling of water--the water doesn't actually have to move forward or back, and isn't going to be too affected by drag, in fact, it would help you capture more wave energy. So you will get a good layer of sea growth that gets blasted off by wave action and doesn't get too thick to cause a problem. - 19quest64, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0How does that compare with an average windmill in use today?
- dinkinflicka, on 07/07/2008, -2/+1How about a 1.21 Gigawatts! snake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlrobvb-ao - offtone, on 07/07/2008, -1/+0I clicked this article for the sole purpose of posting that same comment.
Awesome. - pikolus, on 07/07/2008, -1/+0Best line from SoaP:
Frightened Passengers : "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!"
Samuel Jackson : "NOT ME." - kineticworm, on 07/07/2008, -4/+3http://www.instantrimshot.com/
- lineweight, on 07/07/2008, -6/+4This is old news. They've been using it in Loch Ness for some time now.
- merdiesel, on 07/07/2008, -3/+1this Sandrine Ceurstemont sounds kinda hot.
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