Scottish Wave Energy Plans Move Forward 100
It's been a long time coming (2007, 2005, and 2002 respectively), but the project to harness wave energy off the Scots coast is finally coming together. Reader krou writes: "The BBC is reporting that ten sites on the seabed off Scotland in Pentland Firth and around Orkney have been leased to energy companies with the hopes of generating wave and tidal energy. 'Six sites have been allocated for wave energy developments potentially generating 600 megawatts of power and four for tidal projects, also generating 600 MW.' The leases were awarded to SSE Renewables Developments, Aquamarine Power, ScottishPower Renewables, E.ON, Pelamis Wave Power, OpenHydro Site Developments, and Marine Current Turbines. Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said that 'These waters have been described as the Saudi Arabia of marine power and the wave and tidal projects unveiled today — exceeding the initial 700MW target capacity — underline the rich natural resources of the waters off Scotland.'"
Re:The big question (Score:3, Interesting)
Are you being serious but incredibly badly informed there, attempting a joke, or have some ulterior motive to attempt to influence the gullible?
If you are being serious I suggest going down to the seaside and look at the waves hitting a big fucking cliff and consider how much energy is being tranferred there.
If you are joking is it a dig at climate change being postulated to alter things on your perfect, unchanging 6000 year old earth? Things are changing no matter how much you want to make fun of anyone with a clue.
If you are attempting to influence the gullible then feel free to assume that I'm directing the worst insults you can think of in your direction.
Transmission (Score:5, Interesting)
Where's this power going to? Is there a transmission grid in place to take it to a populated area that could use an extra 600MW? Orkney's in the middle of ^*$&ing nowhere.
Cost per MW? (Score:2, Interesting)
So what's the cost per Mw-hr?
How does it compare against Nuclear's $30 per Mw-hr?
http://www.nucleartourist.com/basics/costs.htm [nucleartourist.com]