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It is a pity really. I would have ben interested if there had been
anything like the scheme he described under consideration.

Oh. what was that? he's killfiled here so I don't get tempted to get
sucked into a pointless dialogue.

Colin said he wasn't going to revisit this thread so I will try to
answer.

Well, I wouldn't have replied to any more of Dribble posts anyway..

IIRC the current point at issue is Dribble's claim: "Cambridge feel
confident. Do a Google" which relates back to his earlier claim that
tidal lagoons occupying 20% of the Irish Sea could provide all of
Ireland's and Britain's energy needs. Dribble is unable to substantiate
the Cambridge connection

He didn't specify which bit of Cambridge either. It could have been
Cambridge City Council for all we know. However, even if it were Cambridge
University, that would only make me more suspicious that it was nothing more
than a theorist's pipe dream.

and I am not at all sure that the source for
the earlier claim has surfaced either (assuming that 2 different sources
are involved).

He has steadfastly refused to provide any source for any of his claims.

Now work out the cost and the concrete needed to convert 20% of the Irish
sea into a tidal lagoon.

He claimed that it would require no more work than was put into building the
railways in the 19th century. He dropped that line when I pointed out that
was a century's worth of major civil engineering projects. However,
Liverpool University is investigating the environmental impact of building
tidal barriers across just about every estuary in the NW, which, it is
claimed, would provide all the electrical power NW England needs.

A spaceship tethered by a high voltage cable to earth, and somewhere in
the vicinity of venus with a set of solar panels the size of london could
also do the job.

Don't say that. The Greens will want to build one.

Colin Bignell