Tidal Energy Today: Oregon’s Waves Could Create 1,000 Jobs per 1GW of Deployment

I had to laugh when I saw the headline above.  If your criterion for a good energy policy is jobs/Watt, get everyone in America riding grid-connected stationary bicycles, eight hours per day.  We’ll have 0% unemployment, but we’d produce about 1/40th of the electricity we currently consume annually.

(100 Watts/American * 8 hours/day * 365 day/year, 300 million Americans) / 4000 TWhrs/year