Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

Your thinking about sea snake.
The theory on that is brilliant it was in the 1970's and 80's when it was trialled and the costs is not too major.

With regards to the Nuclear argument France is the leader in that but its the decommissioning that is the T***.
We're the first to consider full decommissioning and were spending all the cash so everyone can do it cheaper

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

No, Not The Sea Snake, as thats wave generation. More like a load of these but sub surface...

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

Won't annoy the hippies as much as nuclear, which is a shame, but no fuel to have to launch expensively at brown people when it's spent.

Sea snake?

I'm sure I read somewhere that as global warming melts the ice caps, the cold water will stall the gulf stream.

It does seem crazy that with all the tech we have available, that we haven't cracked this BIG problem yet.

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

Why not excavate two large channels/pipelines across the middle of the country, say from Grimsby to Liverpool ?

Now taking the fact that high and low tides are at different times on the separate coasts, flow would run one way than back the other way, providing a constant flow for generating turbines etc, and because the water would be flowing in a 'managed' enviroment, t'would be easier to regulate.

Pie in the sky, I dunno, red wine helps with these thoughts. ;-)

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

Its wave farms to give them their correct name, geordie bumpkin error

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6410839.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...nda-wave-power

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

See above.

It seems the only argument for the use of these turbines is that they only produce power when the tide is running, but as its alwasy running at opposite sides of the country, then link them.


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Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

Well if they're both linked to the national grid.

Problem I have with it is when the tide isn't favourable you've got your expensive genset sat there scratching it's mechanical nuts.

I like the gulf stream idea. How fast is it going?

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

There is always some sort of tide if theres winds. If there is no winds, were f***ed.

The one that the green batallion have in there bonnets is wind turbines.
The most pointless idea, as for example in the Alnwick area wind turbine on a building average winds speed 0.3 m/s it uses more that it generates

Re: Solving the UK's energy problems.
 

Tide isn't caused by the wind