{"id":195446,"date":"2008-07-08T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/08\/i-want-that-muthafing-snake-in-the-muthafing-ocean\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T23:46:00","slug":"i-want-that-muthafing-snake-in-the-muthafing-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/08\/i-want-that-muthafing-snake-in-the-muthafing-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want that Muthaf$#@ing Snake in the Muthaf$#@ing  Ocean!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecia.com.au\/reviews\/s\/images\/snakes-on-a-plane-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 173px;\" src=\"http:\/\/thecia.com.au\/reviews\/s\/images\/snakes-on-a-plane-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In any case, that&#8217;s what I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">think<\/span> that Samuel L. Jackson would say about this new energy technology.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, a team in the UK has developed <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.newscientist.com\/article\/dn14258-giant-rubber-snake-could-be-the-future-of-wave-power.html\">a floating rubber tube that is squeezed by the waves as they travel along<\/a>.  It resembles a seawater filled sausage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2008\/07\/snakepower_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2008\/07\/snakepower_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When the squeeze reaches one end of the tube, a turbine converts the energy into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>They are testing scale models now, but a full size version would be 7 meters in diameter, and 200m long and produce 1 MW, somewhat better, and much less expensive, than rigid wave catching systems and buoys.<\/p>\n<p>A film of it in action is below.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"left: 0px ! important; top: 51px ! important;\" title=\"Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VamSAbwgJKk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><object width=\"494\" height=\"413\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VamSAbwgJKk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VamSAbwgJKk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"494\" height=\"413\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5022335\/huge-rubber-snake-is-no-joke-generates-power-from-waves\">Gismodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any case, that&#8217;s what I think that Samuel L. Jackson would say about this new energy technology. Basically, a team in the UK has developed a floating rubber tube that is squeezed by the waves as they travel along. It resembles a seawater filled sausage. When the squeeze reaches one end of the tube, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1135,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-energy","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}