Mark C. Borton
Description
For 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the world’s first tidal-electric power plant—by harnessing the Bay of Fundy’s giant tides. The enormou
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s project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of coastal Maine and Canada. <i>Moondoggle </i>is a dramatic tale about the appeal of tidal power, the difficulties in realizing its potential, and the engineers and <i>three </i>U.S. Presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy) who tried to make clean and renewable tidal power a reality. Now on the 100th anniversary of the “Passamaquoddy Project’s” conception (1920-2020), <i>Moondoggle—</i>the only book on the project—explores what almost was, and what could be.
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