On 08/10/16 22:15, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

'tis the Grauniad, so take with however much salt you feel appropriate.

"Backers of an ambitious proposal to transform the UK's power supply
will learn in the next few weeks if they are to be given the go-ahead to
build tidal lagoons to generate electricity. The green light could see a
series of major lagoon projects costing more than ukp15bn being
constructed around the coast of Britain"

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...8/tidal-power-
swansea-bay-lagoon

Maybe they should read this first:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/halifax-fi...143846894.html

"The challenges ahead are formidable as evidenced by a pilot project in
2009 which saw OpenHydro and Nova Scotia Power deploy a 400-tonne
turbine that had two of its 12-metre blades snapped off in the powerful
waters."

I like the idea of tidal power as it is constant and predictable. But
will the technology ever be up to it?

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Jeff