Moondoggle: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay [Hardcover]

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 enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of coastal Maine and Canada.Moondoggleis a dramatic tale about the appeal of tidal power, the difficulties in realizing its potential, and the engineers andthreeU.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),Moondoggle—the only book on the project—explores what almost was, and what could be.Mark C. Bortonwas the creator, and for 13 years, the publisher of theEmbassy Boating Guideseries of books covering the east coast of the United States from Maine to Florida. TheNew York Timessaid, “Embassy Guideis all that most skippers will want or need to know,” andSailmagazine called it, “The ultimate guide in copious content and style.” The four volumes have gone through a total of 41 printed editions and have sold more than one quarter of a million copies. Borton also created theMaptech Waterproof Chartseries, which now includes 92 titles."Daniel Burnham said, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood.” The massive New Deal project to harness the world’s highest tides to produce electricity, vividly described by Mark Borton, stirred some men’s blood and others’ ire. The story will delight readers with its mix of history, politics, engineering, and the power of nature." --John A. Riggs, Author of High Tension: FDR’s Battle to Power America"Mark Borton's "Moondoogle" delivers a gripping and lavishly detailed account of the wildly ambitious attempt to light houses and power industry by damming the 30-foot tides of Pal=