Moondoggle

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. <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.