Tidal Power and Clean Ocean Energy – Gavin Newsom
By
Complete video at: fora.tv Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor and 2010 California gubernatorial candidate, explains plans to build power-generating tidal platforms 5 miles off of San Francisco’s coast, as well as an “inverted wind farm” under the Golden Gate Bridge. “Take the idea of a wind farm and put it underwater and now harness all the energy in that tidal flow,” he explains. —– San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is a strong advocate for sustainable urban planning and green business practices; he lead San Francisco to join the Kyoto Protocol, created significant incentives for solar power installation through the GoSolarSF program, and is working on an ambitious plan to make SF the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the US” He discusses his ideas and plans for shaping the growth of cities during these turbulent times. – The Long Now Foundation Gavin Christopher Newsom is the current mayor of San Francisco. A Democrat, Newsom was elected mayor in 2003, succeeding Willie Brown and becoming San Francisco’s youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom graduated in 1989 from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. His PlumpJack Wine Shop, founded in 1992, grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise. He was first appointed by Willie Brown to serve on San Francisco’s Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and was appointed the following year as Supervisor. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city …
Sunny Solar Power Good Gift Smiling Career Eco-friendly Lovely Doll Toy
 | US $10.90 End Date: Wednesday Feb-08-2012 21:35:14 PST Buy It Now for only: US $10.90 Buy it now | Add to watch list |
25 Comments
June 15th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
June 15th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Basically this. The thing is once petrol runs out (this is a fact), then we won’t have materials to build these power stations with. In the end these are all still oil derivatives and until we know how to create lightweight materials without the help of oil (basically a plastic substitute, or better recycled plastic), then we need to act fast, or even this version of the future will be impossible.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Nuclear is still very unsustainable. Incredibly efficient pound for pound, but unsustainable due to waste biproducts, the fact that new nuclear plants have to be built every 15 or so years (that’s probably changing as the tech becomes more reliable and less likely to break down), and uranium (which is our most proficient nuclear fuel) is itself a limited resource. We’d have peak oil all over again, nuclear is a stopgap.
Plus there’s the battery problem. How do we store it efficiently?
June 15th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Show me the money!
June 15th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Urgh… this man makes me cringe. I’m all for the idea, but watching him is like watching Tom Cruise in Magnolia – deeply disturbing and downright sleazy. Really, they need a better spokesman.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Few more things…Nothing, absolutely NOTHING will increse your electric bill like nuclear will…it is far more expensive per watt than any other source of power save for photovoltaics. #2 ALL power production requires backup from others whether it’s fossil fuel, nukes, wind, solar thermal, geothermal…whatever. Again, there is some merit in your comments, but this is a very complex and very important issue that must be solved. Wind, hydro, NG, Geo will all be part of the equation..nukes too.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Nuclear is almost certainly part of the future. Your power plant standby “theory” is only partially valid. If you are curious as to why I say “partially” you need to do some study and research into how our grid system operates. There are so many things that can and are (everyday) done to account for load/supply variables. You anti-wind guys think you are the only ones who have any answers. In reality, the inverse is true.
June 15th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
It is so sad they build these things. They kill birds and bats. When they provide power, they just put another power plant on standby, meaning the power plant still burns fuel but doesn’t provide power. They put the power plants on standby because the power the provide fluctuates and it takes 2-3 days to restart a coal-fire power plant. Wind and solar wont work with our grid and current technology. Investments in solar and wind only increase everyone’s electric bill. Nuclear is the future
June 15th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
excellent work!
June 15th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Awsome thinking… now i just need to think like Tesla and figure out how to use the social energy to not loose my house.
June 15th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I love the idea of capturing the energy of Ocean waves etc.
I recently watched a two hour special on it and to be honest… this is the future.
Of course there are still minor questions to be asked and results to discover but the template is there… and America is BEHIND on this one.
President Obama has some really interesting ideas and concepts on how and why we should look towards renewable, safe energies such as Ocean powered turbines.
June 15th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
educational as well =D
June 15th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Awesome Video. Youtube can be a great asset for you. If you need any help getting your video exposed check out this site called sl8t.(com) It has really done wonders for me, I have built 3 channels up with videos at top in position, this is my forth channel I’m going to working on now.
Sorry for the parenthesis around the com, some reason Youtube will not let you give an actual address in a comment. Real weird. Have a Blessed day!
Have A Good Day/Night!
June 15th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Awesome Video. Youtube can be a great asset for you. If you need any help getting your video exposed check out this site called sl8t.(com) It has really done wonders for me, I have built 3 channels up with videos at top in position, this is my forth channel I’m going to working on now.
Sorry for the parenthesis around the com, some reason Youtube will not let you give an actual address in a comment. Real weird. Have a Blessed day!
Awesome!
June 15th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
those sea lions would kill you and your whole family if they could. We must suck them into generators before they can act.
June 15th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
ForaTV, you have the best videos on Youtube.
June 16th, 2010 at 12:30 am
mmmhhh
June 16th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Great good idea !!!
June 16th, 2010 at 2:03 am
very good idea… anyone knows how to prevent sea lions from getting sucked in?
June 16th, 2010 at 2:56 am
This fellows outfit reminds me of Wallstreet.
can’t be trusted.
June 16th, 2010 at 3:30 am
Give the man a cigar! Right in one! Mikey was a machinists mate. He also was our lead Mechanical Maintenance man and his work, at best, was suspect. His calibration tool? A three pound hand maul.
Take a look at that point (Portsmouth N H) on Google Earth and notice the huge bay sited inland behind the extremely tight river mouth!
And I think it has something to do with the Coriolis effect, but it has been ages since I read about that, don’t bet money on that call LOLOL
June 16th, 2010 at 3:51 am
Ouch, sounds like a Machinist Mate, I was in the Reactor Dept… (zoomies, “glow in the dark”…LOL).
Yeah, I do like that idea of putting turbines in the “narrows”, good point … there’s probably many opportunities (especially further from the equator…seems tides get bigger the further away… I should know why… but forgot..:)
June 16th, 2010 at 3:52 am
Oh lord! The Carl Vinson? I used to work with the biggest nut I ever met who was stationed on that ship! Did you know anyone that clocked an officer with a spanner?
All joking aside, there are many sites where tidal turbines could really generate some serious electricity! I worked at Portsmouth in N. H. on the Piscataqua, that particular tidal exchange could be as good as any three Nukes!!!
June 16th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Pluton,
Mahalo for sending me this video….
Great idea for San Fran (I used to be stationed in Alameda, when the USS Carl Vinson was “San Fransisco’s Own”)….especially the tidal turbines!
Thanks again Buddy! Aloha, UC
June 16th, 2010 at 5:27 am
Yay Lofty Goals!
Mayor Gavin Newsom is the wave of the future!!!