Boz33
Striker
All the more reason to pile money into tidal and become world leaders in the thing. Loads might like to think the uk is on a downward spiral, but what we have always been good at is inventiveness as a nation.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.
We've plenty of high end universities and research facilities, start giving them the monetary means to get this technology right.
At some point oil and gas will run out/ become too expensive to use so we need to be at the for front of the new industries