Red Stick Hydroelectric?

From 2Millionth Web Log

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A federal regulatory agency is holding meetings in seven cities, including Baton Rouge, on a plan to harness the flow of the Mississippi River to generate electricity from St. Louis to New Orleans.

Free Flow Power Corp. of Gloucester, Mass., wants to place 180,000 small turbines in the Mississippi River below navigational channels to generate as much as 1,800 megawatts of power.

Obviously this is just a start--if nothing else, there will be the need for extensive environmental impact studies...and then you've got to design equipment that can handle river conditions...still, I hope this shows some promise.