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Howburn Digger
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Edited Aug 21, 2016, 11:14
Re: FFS
Aug 21, 2016, 11:13
Captain Starlet wrote:
It's perfect, there's going to be one in Swansea anyway but Newport and Cardiff have got until 2018 to get their applications in, which would supply electricity for the whole of Wales, making nuclear obsolete here


The Severn is an assett but not any kinda magic key. It wouldn't be sufficient to supply the whole of Wales I'm afraid. And unless electricity customers decided to go to work, watch TV and play on their computers in the middle of the night for half the time it cannot work except for about 25% of each day and even then the power outage simply ain't gonna be sufficient at all... not for a town like Barry let alone "the whole of Wales".
You see the tides are a moving feast... extracting a bit of power from a tidal race ain't the problem (though it does take some engineering and ingenuity). The problem is transmission and storage. There is the Hollow Mountain in Snowdonia but that is it. It can only supply a small boost to the kettle rush before Eastenders in the Bangor area. And that's it.
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