I don’t know where that title came from. It just seemed like something fun to shout from a rooftop at night.

Anyway…

Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started getting power from the moon on Saturday via a unique subsea power station driven by the rise and fall of the tide.
A tidal current in a sea channel near the town of Hammerfest, caused by the gravitational tug of the moon on the earth, started turning the 33-foot blades of a turbine bolted to the seabed to generate electricity for the local grid.

I just think this is a terribly cool way to power a town. Granted, with what they set up it’s only going to handle the (small) town, but good grief, they did this up in the artic regions — how much easier would it be to set stuff like this up off the East Coast?

Cheaper to go fission and actually, it'll be less invasive to the environment.

But splitin' atoms is scary and dispite the fact that theres radioative isotopes in everything from tap water to...well all of the midwest and that the center of the Earth is heated all nice and toasty from the heat from isotope decay, people think that anything "nuclear" is evil and a plot against Mother Earth.

The folks in Norway don't know what the impact will be on sealife, they don't know how they are going to maintain the systems on the seafloor. So I don't think it's all that ready for prime-time. After all those nice big wind turbines like to chop up raptors and song birds, I'm sure something other than the tide is going to end up in the turbines of the sea.

So you've managed to almost thoroughly block that traumatic Sailor Moon viewing experience, eh? ;-)

God, THAT'S where it's from. Aww hell.