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Post by Ben Zene on Mar 18, 2011 18:27:25 GMT
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 20, 2011 15:52:12 GMT
"SPR chief executive Keith Anderson said: "Tidal power has long been *considered* one of Scotland's most valuable renewable energy resources and we have discussed its *potential* for many years."
Let's hope the claimed "potential" is, in fact, demonstrated by this highly subsidised experiment.
One fears that it may be a very expensive and futile "make work" and "boost the local economy" effort with no real impact on economic power generation. But, of course, the usual pockets will be lined in the process and that's what it's really about in my opinion.
We'll see.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 20, 2011 16:07:14 GMT
Underwater tidal turbines are rather like the wind turbines we see on hilltops - oh, yeah?
If it is hard to maintain wind turbines 100s of feet above ground level, one wonders how the undersea variety will fare. Frogmen engineers?
Yes, I KNOW it is theoretically do-able but is it economically sound?
In the interests of CO2 emissions reductions we are talking about the need to replace ALL the thermal (coal, gas, oil) generation and in the interests of safety ALL the nuclear.
These "renewables" are just pie in the sky in this scenario.
I predict an eventual return to an updated coal generation technology when the renewable scales have fallen from everyone's eyes.
The world has plenty of coal and much of it lies under the developed world ready for the taking and CHEAP.
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