Burning the Tide

Woot. Second post. All five or so of you must be super excited or somethin. Well anyways the article I read this week is also from Popular Science (what can you say its science and its popular). Anyway the article was about Alan Burns the old and his quest to harness the power of the waves (just finished invocation trying to return to normal language). However Burns isn’t doing it the ways most do. Most people float a high-tech buoy or something similar to that on the ocean’s surface. Burns is putting his devices called CETO (named after a Greek sea goddess (cool huh?)) under water where they will be more resistant to storms. Since waves are much more consistent than the sun and wind it seems to be a very logical source of energy other than oil. Burns believes that soon there will be huge demand for renewable energy sources (btw before this Burns was an oil man). He hopes his CETOs will bring in big profits as a cheap renewable way to get energy. The only possible problem the CETO has is that it’s at the bottom of the ocean were waves are weakest. However Burns hopes to make up for this by making CETOs cheap and keeping them underwater where they will be safe from storms. That’s all I got for this week…so…bye.