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Won’t anyone think of the Moon! It’s a natural resource we can’t just use it without consequences
There was a renewable demonstrated in Nova Scotia and installing off Anglesey, Brittany, Japan & Oz
Guaranteed to be there every day and night, all year.
Tidal stream.
FTFY
Tidal stream has potential to extinct oil & gas for electrical generation, and therein lies the issue, its not the lack of technical capability it's breaking the hold of O&G.
On the bright side, the O&G dinosaurs eventually see the light and realise another way as this item:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/.../25095033/catapult-impact-report-2019-WEB.pdf
Page 22/23 has a great image of the test rig for 15MW wind turbine that is currently proving a 11MW unit. A battle to get there fighting the dinosaurs.
At 15MW thats 5x currently deployed offshore turbines. The 15MW are to be positioned where wind is constant day and night. To give an idea of scale the nacelle weighs 350tonnes, blades are 105mt long. The nacelle sits at 105m (blade length), plus wave height factor = 30m, so the tip of the blade is 240m above sea level.
There is a 15MW turbine in existence that was on that rig, but the O&G boys attempted to thwart its development, until realising the future is bright. Hopefully the re-emergence of the OpenHydro demonstrator will be picked up by an enlightened O&G major, just as 15MW wind has.
Statoil the Norwegian state oil co has pioneered floating wind turbines recently brought onstream offshore Aberdeen the O&G home.
Just to add this capability is British Engineering at it's best. Unfortunately the policy makers don't know what Engineering is
The rapid drop in cost of wind generation is testament to how things change rapidly.
Nuclear needs the same effort to give us energy security. The future is bright.