{"id":35,"date":"2005-03-06T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T03:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/03\/06\/swim-with-the-tide\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T04:41:19","slug":"swim-with-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/03\/06\/swim-with-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim with the tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1824\"><\/a>  I never thought that watching a video of tidal current could be interesting, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racerocks.com\/racerock\/archives_2\/vidrrflood.htm\">this one<\/a> is.  It&#8217;s on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racerocks.com\/\">Race Rocks<\/a> website.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racerocks.com\/racerock\/maps\/map.htm\">Race Rocks Ecological Preserve<\/a> is off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island, and it&#8217;s under the stewardship of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearsoncollege.ca\/\">Pearson College<\/a>.  The latter just announced that they have worked out a sizeable funding package (or joint project etc.) with a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encana.com\/\">private<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleancurrent.com\/\">firms<\/a> to build a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racerocks.com\/racerock\/energy\/tidalenergy\/tidalenergy.htm\">free-stream tidal power generator<\/a> &#8212; hence the fascinating tidal current video.  It&#8217;s sort of like watching money being made, or energy coming into being, or something like that.  At ~6 knots per hour at its peak, it&#8217;s an impressive powerstream, giving &#8220;go with the flow&#8221; a whole new meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought that watching a video of tidal current could be interesting, but this one is. It&#8217;s on the Race Rocks website. The Race Rocks Ecological Preserve is off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island, and it&#8217;s under the stewardship of Pearson College. The latter just announced that they have worked out a sizeable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}