[Scape]

Feasible research is based on favorable conditions like tidal projects that use the highest tides in the world for example.

[Blue_Nose]

sasquatch2 wrote:

And a lot of research grants are make work projects for polically connected academics.

A few years back I received a "development grant" to design and build a prototype barrell crusher. To qualify I had to have a working model to demonstrate. I designed and built it. Didn't sand blast and paint it, demonstrated it. They were satisfied--I sand blasted it, painted it, applied my decals and shipped it to the Feds for Northern Canada. I lost the tender for the other 10.....to somebody better connected.

"Whoopie Shit" as you would say - what does your "barrell" crusher have to do with anything? That doesn't change the fact that more research has to be done on tidal power before it can be implemented on a larger scale.

[sasquatch2]

Blue_Nose

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Whoopie Shit" as you would say - what does your "barrell" crusher have to do with anything?

It illustrates the wisdom of the grant awarding process.

BTW the barrel crusher's purpose was to facilitate the recycling of the vast heaps of empty barrells in the arctic.

[kenmore]

ya sasquatch it was invented in ontario.. because the tides in lake ontario are so forceful ... stand back...