On 16/12/12 16:43, Andy Champ wrote:
On 15/12/2012 21:31, Tim Streater wrote:
Same sort of issue really. You could have a tidal barrage across the
Severn, and then one or more across, I dunno, the Humber or something
(anyway, somewhere where the tide is 90deg out of phase with the Severn).

Morecambe Bay IIRC.

"H R Wallingfords research consisted of both on site measurement and
modelling and identified that the maximum outputs for power production
outputs in the Bay could be as much as 2-3GW."

http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/industries/power/news/bridge-across-the-bay


The biggest Severn scheme, if Wikipedia and the Beeb can be believed, is
8Gw. For 8 hours per day, and not at neaps.

Andy
peak outputs are useless. Its lowest output and peak to mean ratio that
determines usefulness.

http://www.templar.co.uk/downloads/R...imitations.pdf

read it.



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