http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Robbrian662/The Ocean Waterfall Dam--Counter-Intuitive Reality What if instead of building more dams on rivers and streams to generate electricity, we build a 2 to 3 mile long, 800ft deep, 350ft wide, ultra-modified dam in the Atlantic ocean about 5 miles beyond the three mile limit, off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia? Picture the Grand Coulee Dam, which since 1941, helped to reshape the Northwest with cheap electricity, it generates 6.5 x 109 watts..= 6,500 megawatts..= 6.5 million kilowatts. It is also the largest concrete structure ever built. US households use on average about 2 kilowatts of electricity, so the Grand Coulee Dam can power 3.25 million such homes. Currently, approximately 11,200 Tera Watt hrs/yr of primary energy is required to meet total U.S. electrical demand. An ocean waterfall dam of the magnitude mentioned above would generate 15 to 20 times that amount and also replace energy created by natural gas, coal, wind, and solar. So let's design a steel and concrhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Robbrian662/513903Published on Thursday, May 17, 2001 in the Christian Science Monitor There's power in here... and we don't have to drill for it. New Turbine Can Extract Energy from Flowing Water by Sara Steindorf and Tom Regan Water comprises 70 percent of the earth's surface and contains enormous potential as a...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Robbrian662/498419Water everywhere and we're still afraid to harness it. What if instead of building more dams on rivers and streams to generate electricity, we build a 2 to 3 mile long, 800ft deep, 350ft wide, ultra-modified dam in the Atlantic ocean about 5 miles beyond the three mile limit, off the coast of...