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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2710)	9/25/2011 12:06:57 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

They'll dike the Gate when sea level rise forces them to. Don't know where this project stands. Newsom hopes to ride the energy wave of the future by sinking turbines under the Golden Gate Bridge and current-catching generators off Ocean Beach. The idea: Produce electricity for the city to sell or use, or both Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/25/BAGATJK5D51.DTL#ixzz1YyqIiuK4 sfgate.com == Here's something we prolly can't do, just cuz the French are. Paris Deputy Mayor Denis Baupin has announced plans for the French city to join Alaska, New York, and Ontario in turning to hydropower for a renewable energy solution. Bids to install turbines under several bridges in the Seine river are due by September of this year with project completion scheduled for the spring. As hydropower turns away from huge hydroelectric dams and reservoirs that permanently alter the landscape, it is becoming a popular source of green energy buildaroo.com re your concern about population areas... Somebody should invent a system so you can send electricity from place to place over wires. We could get around the problem that way. We could do things like put a dam on the Colorado River and send power to LA. In fact, if we could do that, we could even float some solar panels on the reservoir. India to build floating solar plant If India were to use 1 percent of its 11,583 square miles of captured water with Sunengy's system, he said, it could generate power equal to 15 large coal-fired power stations. upi.com