Tidal lagoon: £1.3bn Swansea Bay project to be backed - BBC News
I didn't think it would get the go-ahead but it is sounding like it might now.
I like the fact it's very low-tech which means it should be predictable what energy we actually get out of the thing.
I'm a little dubious that we never (and nobody ever) seems to have done it before... it's a simple idea so why not?
Impact-wise I wouldn't want to see our coasts ringed with concrete walls but it seems it can open up new spaces for use. And I don't know how big these things need to be - windmills we need to cover the whole country so would we need to encase the entire coast-line or something much less dramatic?
Any thoughts beyond the predictable "it's green and I like green so it's good" / "it's green so it's stupid" knee-jerk reactions? The BBC article suggested it might work out comparably expensive to the new Hinkley project for instance - is that good or bad? Is innovating in this field good for UK's dealings with other nations? etc etc
I didn't think it would get the go-ahead but it is sounding like it might now.
I like the fact it's very low-tech which means it should be predictable what energy we actually get out of the thing.
I'm a little dubious that we never (and nobody ever) seems to have done it before... it's a simple idea so why not?
Impact-wise I wouldn't want to see our coasts ringed with concrete walls but it seems it can open up new spaces for use. And I don't know how big these things need to be - windmills we need to cover the whole country so would we need to encase the entire coast-line or something much less dramatic?
Any thoughts beyond the predictable "it's green and I like green so it's good" / "it's green so it's stupid" knee-jerk reactions? The BBC article suggested it might work out comparably expensive to the new Hinkley project for instance - is that good or bad? Is innovating in this field good for UK's dealings with other nations? etc etc
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