SHARKS WILL SAVE THE EARTH!

Tim Finnigan is a professor of ocean engineering at the University of Sydney in Australia. He has designed a way to produce energy or rather collect energy on the sea floor by mimicking the design of Shark tails. The BioStream is anchored on the sea floor and as strong ocean currents pass over it, the movement of the tail from side to side creates energy like a windmill. The largest of the Shark tail generators can create two megawatts of power, which is enough to power over 1600 homes. The only problem is that since it is a new technology the cost is still high at 8 to 15 centers per kilowatt hour. Still, it is completely pollution and greenhouse gas free and does not obscure the beach front views like large windmills. Now we get to watch the oil, coal, and nuclear lobby try to torpedo the success of the technology.

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Sharks, taking a bite out of big oil's ass!

--Sharky

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It's true:

We don't really make it our business to spend our time reading the fluff pages of secondary market newspapers but our internet news searching of the keyword "Shark" keeps on pulling up the Orlando Sentinel. Wow! What a piece of shit it is? This crappy editorial comes on the heels of the artfully published Brenda Quiles letter.

This new insult to reason was squirted out by "outdoors writer" Mike Thomas and is entitled "Why shark attacks are increasing?"

Because there are more sharks!

According to what scientific data, genius?

Of course this is not the politically correct answer, which is that there are more people in the water.

"Politically correct" read: elitist intellectual.

But in fact, there are more sharks, a lot more blacktip sharks to be specific, which are responsible for most of the nip-and-run Volusia attacks. Commerical [sic] fishing for these sharks was banned in Florida waters in 1993 to increase their numbers. The ban worked.

Really? Most of the attacks in recent years have been from Spinner Sharks. Blacktips and Spinners are similar, but they are not the same. I could give the Latin binomials but that would be too "correct." And where is your data that says there are so many more Sharks today than there were before 1993?

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