Show GET POWER FROM CURRENTS OF STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR spanish economist sees vast in harnessing power ful stream madrid the currents passing from lie atlantic ocean into the fanean sea and vice versa produce an enormous power that could be used and transformed into electricity according to don emillo prominent spanish economist who has competed a preliminary study of the question and submitted it to king alphonso XIII calculated that one current the strait ot gibraltar coming from the atlantic ocean and carrying a yearly volume 0 20 cu alc kilometers 0 water at an aver age of ten kilometers per hour and the other current crossing ander benth from the mediterranean into the ocean with a yearly volume of cubic kilometers saturated with sail can be turned into a formold able continual electric power of over 30 billiards milliards milli ards of horse power in the document addressed to the king said the maximum pow er lies in the bay west of but that power la also available in oth er points on both sides of the strait explaining the cobrae of energy there pointed out that to get an appropriate idea of the water flow ing every ear into the mediterranean sea one must imagine a huge cube of water three times and one third high er than mount everest running nt cubic meters of water per sec ond adding the which furnishes cubic of wa ter per second the constant electrical power obtainable reaches 30 horse power J |