A Futuristic Energy Plan, 100 Years in the Making
By JIM DWYER In the century to come, The New York World imagined 100 years ago, gyroscopic trains might travel at fantastic speed, there could be wireless phones in every pocket, and the world "may have aeroplanes winging the once inconquerable air". Over the next two weeks, a third generation of experimental turbines will be installed in the waters of the East River off Roosevelt Island. Those currents ate up the first two generations of turbines, installed by Verdant Power, a small private company, in late 2006 and early 2007. The only way inventors can make anything work is to see how it doesn't work. And in the saga of the East River turbines, there is already a sharp lesson on the risks of giving up too soon. Source: New York Times |
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