East River becomes a green zone - AP

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Source: Associated Press

East River becomes a green zone

By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 13, 6:58 PM ET

NEW YORK - The murky rivers around New York City bring to mind many things
— garbage, chemicals, perhaps mobsters' bodies. Clean energy is not one of them.

But the state is trying to change that thinking.

It is teaming up with a Virginia company to use the East River for a unique
experiment in renewable energy: Six giant turbines are being placed underwater
in a $7 million project to harness the energy of the tides and produce
electricity.

One of the 16-foot-diameter, windmill-like turbines is already operating, supplying
power to a grocery store and a garage on Roosevelt Island. The other turbines
are being installed over the next two weeks.

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Project organizers say this is the first time the underwater-turbine concept has
been used in the U.S.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_on_re_us/underwater_energy

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1. It's about time...

I think Japan has been using tidal currents for energy for a couple decades now.