UK electricity generation



Should massively up the tidal capabilities, between water and wind the uk has a great advantage.
This is what I always found strange about labours plan for nationalising the power companies.
Instead of buying back things that rely on commodities that will run out, get a move on with the renewables with the money that would have been used for the purchase and make them obsolete, surely it's a no brainer, tidal wind and nuclear to make up our power needs 100%.
 
Joe Public said:
On Saturday wind produced 31.9% of GB electricity followed by nuclear 23.6%, gas 20.7%, biomass 7.9%, imports 6.6%, solar 6.2%, hydro 1.5%, storage 1.0%, other 0.4%, coal 0.0%, national demand 604 GWh *excl. non-renewable distributed generation.

That’s 71.1% from low carbon and renewable sources.

Big change from where we were 5 years ago.
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All the sea and rivers we have and only produce 1.5% hydro.
 
Boz33 said:
Should massively up the tidal capabilities, between water and wind the uk has a great advantage.
This is what I always found strange about labours plan for nationalising the power companies.
Instead of buying back things that rely on commodities that will run out, get a move on with the renewables with the money that would have been used for the purchase and make them obsolete, surely it's a no brainer, tidal wind and nuclear to make up our power needs 100%.
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Tidal is still in its infancy relative to wind. There are a number of designs out there which effectively transfer the up and down motion into
joemcdokes said:
All the sea and rivers we have and only produce 1.5% hydro.
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I think we could have developed the inland hydro better than we have, but offshore tidal is not a mature technology.

£/MW wind power is more cost effective. In fact, it’s more cost effective than nuclear and other traditional fuel sources.
 
Kevj said:
Tidal is still in its infancy relative to wind. There are a number of designs out there which effectively transfer the up and down motion into


I think we could have developed the inland hydro better than we have, but offshore tidal is not a mature technology.

£/MW wind power is more cost effective. In fact, it’s more cost effective than nuclear and other traditional fuel sources.
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I was thinking along the lines of say the drop in the Wear in Durham city, it seems a perfect location for a constant flow to create power.
Is it simple enough to do or are there alot of problems regarding something like that?
 
joemcdokes said:
I was thinking along the lines of say the drop in the Wear in Durham city, it seems a perfect location for a constant flow to create power.
Is it simple enough to do or are there alot of problems regarding something like that?
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Any drop in height provides the opportunity to convert potential energy to actual power, but to be commercially viable, the head of water generally needs to be above a certain level.

That said, there’s a clear argument for micro generation over multiple sites.
 
Kevj said:
Any drop in height provides the opportunity to convert potential energy to actual power, but to be commercially viable, the head of water generally needs to be above a certain level.

That said, there’s a clear argument for micro generation over multiple sites.
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Get ya the reason Switzerland is perfect for it.
 
Stevie Freestein II said:
How does a car turbo work?

Could you attach wind turbines onto the side of car wheels?
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A turbo uses waste gas that’s doing nothing else. He’s taking about putting something onto a propellor that will add resistance to its rotation, so you’d have to use more energy to turn it. That’s more like a supercharger.
I asked the car turbine question before on here and it was decided it wouldnt work for the same reason.
 

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