The Natural Philosopher wrote:
its a very expensive and environmentally dfestrictive (sic) way to generate
power, and there are only a few places where its really effective - you
cant use the whole coastline, not for any decent scale and efficiency.

Sure. In the short term I agree with your position - we can either go
fission, or have no power. But I think tidal is probably a better bet
than wind, and it could provide part of a balanced system. It was only
the single point - that it is not tidally variable, when you look at the
whole country - that I was picking him up on.

Andy