PG&E sees power in North Coast waves

[jpak]

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070301/NEWS/703010302/1033/NEWS01

The choppy waters off the coasts of Fort Bragg and Eureka are about to become a testing ground for harnessing wave energy under a new proposal by PG&E.

The energy generated from the ocean could someday give the North Coast a new identity as the hub of a renewable resource, even as its timber and fishing industries continue to decline.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Tuesday asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval to test the ocean's energy-generating potential in an area of about 200 square miles off the Mendocino and Humboldt county coasts.

"We believe we have a responsibility to investigate every source of renewable energy for our customers," said Greg Lamberg, manager of project development for PG&E.

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[mike_c]

1. we've got waves up here...

...that's for sure!

[XemaSab]

2. And you freakin' KNOW that someone's going to flip out about it

:P

(paging Sean Armstrong... Sean Armstrong please report to the green courtesy phone)

[IChing]

3. Cheney's energy panel already looked into that already and concluded

there is no energy to exploit because Haliburton said so





Mavericks , nope, no energy there.

Europe is so far ahead of us on this technology because of our controlled dependence on oil
by the Petroleum Institute and their lackeys