Our cruise from Manhattan to Toronto continues on the Viking Octantis.  We are on the St. Laurence Seaway. Seaway, because there are locks on the western portion of the St. Lawrence River. River flows from the Great Lakes in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario into the North Atlantic Ocean, and is #2 to the Mississippi River in North America. Remember my saying that a drop of water takes about three months to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico?  Similarly, this hypothetical drop takes 6 to 8 years to pass through Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean.  Or, from the furthest Lake Superior extreme, more than 200 years. Among the highlights include: Is fresh until around the city of Quebec, and eventually is ocean salty near Tadoussac. Portions of the seaway have peak tides up to 20 feet twice daily.  You would thus think that tidal plants would be prominent, for studies estimate a potential of 1.5 gigawatts, or 1555 megawatts. ...

Wednesday is sci-tech day for this blog site.  But before getting into that, first, a comment about viewership.   Google runs my blog. This is why, in my transition to being replaced by Artificial Intelligence, I turn to Google AI. I have two daily sites with the same posting. The  original one  began 17 years ago and ran out of links to the internet:   This blog site initially focused on renewable energy and the environment. But that was SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth. My next book, SS for Humanity, opened the subject area to everything else, including SETI, the afterlife, travel and cuisine. However, I still provide, now and then, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS. Thus, a few years ago I in parallel started  another blog site  with the same posting of the day:   New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will rema...