If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco and other city officials announced in 2006 that they wanted to build turbines under the Golden Gate Bridge to harness energy from the tidal currents, expecting up to 38 megawatts (enough for approx. 38,000 homes). But a new study by URS, an engineering firm, says that there would actually only be just 1 or 2 megawatts produced at a cost of tens of millions to build, and high yearly maintenance expenses. Though the taxpayers’ money would clearly be better spent elsewhere, Mayor Newsom doesn’t seem to care. “I don’t care about the arguments against it. I care about the arguments for it. I am going to find a way to make it happen.”
I’m all for clean energy, but it has to make sense. This is a waste of money and resources for something that isn’t even worth it.
