Wave Goodbye to the Nice Mankind
It's really amusing the futilities humankind runs into over the perplexing problems of how to harness the waves.
The logical mind sees motion. It can only think in terms of force. But there is a greater force. Shall I tell you? Yeah. I'll let you in on this one. There are, in humanesque terminology and ways of thinking, two aspects of force in the observable measurable existence around us.
These are described as forms of energy. There is kinetic energy that comes from some place, a state in America called "Cinneticut". Only kidding.
Let's try that again, in contemporary science, you have kinetic energy and potential energy. But there is another form and it has been used for over a century now and I call that form of energy "coax", and it is much more powerful than the kind of energy used to run turbines in contemporary generators.
Actually, energy are two letters of the alphabet. N or G. Yuck, yuck! Did you hear the one about the academic that turned a lecture hall into a dormitory? He turned the N in the entrance sign on it's side and thereby he got his z's. Yuck, yuck!
Anyway, the difference between sea water and fresh water is that sea water is a part of a big battery. The electrons are coaxed by the chemistry in solution in that vast bowl of soup that covers two thirds of the planet surface. You're looking at a huge amount of energy, enough to light up every continent perpetually. Um Hum... better light than never.
However, there is a primary reason for humankind's hesitation. There's a huge problem with the technology and that problem is greed. There is no problem getting the electricity, the problem is how to make it so people have to pay to get it.
Ta da. There is a solution. Everybody is geared for alternating current produced by turbines, so you just provide the service of converting the direct current your sea battery provides and use that to run unique "dry" turbines ashore. It's as I say, make sure in a rowboat.
Dry turbines, run by direct current, producing huge levels of alternating current, are much easier to maintain than liquid ones and solve the problem of having to dam up fresh water with all that difficulty of silting and everything else. Plus there's no limit to where you can set up. You have so much shoreline in the world that you could supply the grid of half a continent from one quarter of it's shore on only one side.
Sometimes trying to harness dynamic flows can be more of an exercise in futility. I mean, you could do it, but what does it prove. Let it flow and get to work with the power readily at hand which you don't have to fight. Use coax. Things go better with coax.
I could design a prototype for you, but I'd have to have a team of technicians and a budget allotment. Because the coax phenomenon being used to generate electricity is just the beginning. And you can use other aspects of reality besides oceans. Or as the French put it, "aux chiennes". There's use of the borealis aspect, solar wind aspect, atmosphere-crust aspect, and there are other phenomenon obtainable from oceanic coax such as gold mining by plating technology, and there is the good sense practice of electrode reclamation as an environmental protection for the industry.
A couple of more jokes. The first industries came from the Indus River Valley civilizations, there they had Indus trees all along the banks of the river. I mean, they had Indus trees up the wazoo. And the first telephone existed in pre-history, it was developed by the Phoenicians. Yup. They were sea-faring merchants. They set out in combo sail and row boats. Every now and then they'd offer their clientele a prime oar deal.
Coax energy is perhaps prevalent in all existence. There may be millions of applications right off the bat. It may be possible to put coax in a personal computer power unit to allow it to be turned on in a wilderness location, and so on. Same for any appliance, such as a washing machine or television, or maybe a coax-powered vehicle.
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Paul A. L. Hall
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