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World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK
AmiMoJo writes Plans to generate electricity from the world's first series of tidal lagoons have been unveiled in the UK. The six lagoons — four in Wales and one each in Somerset and Cumbria — will capture incoming and outgoing tides behind giant sea walls, and use the weight of the water to power turbines. The series of six lagoons could generate 8% of the UK's electricity for an investment of £12bn. Tidal Lagoon Power wants £168 per MWh hour for electricity in Swansea, reducing to £90-£95 per MWh for power from a second, more efficient lagoon in Cardiff. The £90 figure compares favorably with the £92.50 price for power from the planned Hinkley nuclear station, especially as the lagoon is designed to last 120 years — at a much lower risk than nuclear. Unlike power from the sun and wind, tidal power is predictable. Turbines capture energy from two incoming and two outgoing tides a day, and are expected to be active for an average of 14 hours a day. Friends of the Earth Cymru, said the group is broadly in favor of the Swansea lagoon.
Any energy source that does not burn fossil fuels is for pinko commies, and the people designing and building them should immediately be taken out and shot! We must only use oil, coal and natural gas, and we should have a law that allows for summary execution of anyone who brings up wind, solar, AGW, or science. After all, we know God fucking hates greenies and wants us to kill all of them!
Fuck everyone who believes spewing CO2 into the atmosphere isn't a good, nay, incredibly great and healthy thing! We should kill all the climatologists right fucking now!!!!!
I'd say more, but I'm at risk of drowning in my own spittle.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
This is SOOO inconsiderate! Harvesting tidal power will SLOW the rotation of the Earth, making days longer, and simultaneously accelerate the moon, so it will recede from us more quickly!
BAN TIDAL POWER HARVESTING NOW!
(Who want's longer Mondays?)
How difficult can it actually be to filter out the fish from the inrushing water?
Pretty difficult, I imagine. In no time at all, your filter will be completely clogged with all kinds of marine life and junk.
The obvious solution is to just install a filter over it, to keep the first filter from getting clogged.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil