No its just you the union has been screwing. Youve been identified by the Illuminati as a rabble rouser. Although many of us know its only sheep that you worry, its difficult for a large clandestine organisation to differentiate.
finm I know they do now, but it is a bit of a pain to get planning etc. I was talking a small wind turbine up the end of the garden
@bootsam deffo, worried a few sheep last month. and so they should be. if it done nothing else it certainly raised awareness. next time dude next time. @MaDProFF there are grants avail depending on planning permission. there is up here anyhoo.
Exactly right, my Degree is in Civil and Coastal Engineering. My lecturer in Coastal Engineering was one of the top guys in the country on research into wave and tidal power generation. It was his view that we will not see a reliable form of power generation from the sea in our lifetimes due as it is too difficult to stop the generation apparatus from falling apart. That's not to say we should not be looking at it though, the potential is far too high
how long ago was that? there is a company installing them as we type. think its new york, cant remember that have underwater turbines in one of there big rivers for several years now. if they can fly to the moon, make a nuclear reactor,or a bomb that can kill hundreds of thousands. they can make wave power and other projects work. it's just the company line, carbon (easy high profit) renewable (harder less profit) the kids coming through will make it work. they will have no option. i can hear them now. "thanks grandad for screwing the planet".
Mine is in Mechanical Engineering. Engineering is full of people who say things cannot be done then someone pops along with a leftfield solution. Just because your lecturer cannot fathom owt, doesnt make it so. History is littered with such scenarios. Necessity is the mother of all invention and that phrase didnt create itself.
close your eyes and every thing will go away. we will have none of that optimism around here, thank you very much. how dare they think of the future and the problems they face. silly kids.
Perfectly feasible to make it reliable but not affordable; or affordable but not reliable. Contriving designs and materials which make apparatus both reliable and affordable is the trick. I'm sure someone will crack it one day, maybe next year, maybe in 50 years. Our friend Mr finm was boasting that this is something Scotland has already - in his fantasies.
I completely agree, we have to be looking at it as the power generation potential is far too high to ignore. @finm I graduated in '03 there were schemes going out then, there were also schemes falling apart then too... The power of the sea is mind bogglingly colossal, it's also a very harsh environment with regards to corrosion. The engineering challenges involved are enormous but they are definitely worth tackling.
TBH the best way is to Greatly reduce power usage, IE LEDS, Computers, far better house installation. Make everyone eat cold food fashionable and invest in battery, small turbine wind technology, and Sun energy replenishing batteries that will run houses over night. Every house hold should be power self sufficient
deffo. look at the north sea rigs for a start. i would be happy to pay more. especially if the utility company's where not so focused on taking the piss sorry profit for share holders and private pension company's. deffo more and the right kind of regulation required.
With wave power they need to dislocate the sea from the fan. Use the power of the wave to create air pressure and let that drive the fans on the generator. Thus removing the sea and its corrosive influence from the turbines. Thats only my 5mins worth of thinking.
not bad, not bad atoll. get in there boots, renewable's are big, big, big up here (with the help of the S.N.P and green party). do it. be a man, get it done.
Yup - and make it legal to beat ones wife/girlfriend/partner if she leaves the fucking telly on playing to its f'ing self one more f'ing time!
Too many arts graduates, PPE graduates and lawyers running the country. Sounds reasonable, but at the cost of efficiency and therefore price per unit of electricity.
Well yes, but unfortunately making batteries consumes a lot of energy, making wind turbines consumes a lot of energy, making solar panels consumes a lot of energy ... If we are not very careful indeed we could end up using more energy overall than we save. Calculations of costs and benefits are what we need, not people blundering in with more enthusiasm than sense.
That was my lecturers view too, and it does make sense. He (and his team) built a tethered free floating buoy with a series of pipes and valves driving a fan as a test bed, it worked well for a while. It disappeared in a storm and we had to recover it from the seabed (part of my degree was HSE Commercial Scuba diving). It looked great hanging off lifting bags In all seriousness it is definitely a very promising area of research, they just have to work out how to keep the thing afloat in a force 10 (and make sure the transmission kit doesn't get damaged)
What shale gas ? Another overhyped jam tomorrow dream. Expectations in the US are being scaled back and so far we have no shale gas on line in the UK. It is this kind of unrealistic thinking that is delaying the investment in proven technology we need today.
