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Apparently this is a 2MW turbine https://simecatlantis.com/2018/09/13/simec-atlantis-energy-u...
Isn't 1,5 - 2MW much the same amount a standard onshore wind turbine would provide? I assume the tidal power generation must have some advantages (e.g. more constant output?)
Apparently this is a 2MW turbine https://simecatlantis.com/2018/09/13/simec-atlantis-energy-u...
Isn't 1,5 - 2MW much the same amount a standard onshore wind turbine would provide? I assume the tidal power generation must have some advantages (e.g. more constant output?)
https://globalnews.ca/news/4644316/cape-sharp-tidal-turbine-...
Here's a description of an earlier attempt, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-worlds-firs... All the press releases and articles describing work in the Pentland Firth are breathlessly optimistic. The environment here is fantastically unkind to marine equipment and at least one previous project (can't recall or find the details) was destroyed in a very short time. To give you an idea, the current at Dun…
What are your thoughts on the project as someone familiar with the area? Good, bad, mixed? As an outsider, it seems that Scotland is leading the world in offshore wind, which is someone Scottish Engineers could export to many other places. I see it as exciting.
There's a long history of marine engineering in the country. There's a lot of good expertise here and the Scottish government sees renewables and the associated technology to be a good export opportunity for the country. It would be great if the country to take the experience gained in the oil industry and use it in more environmentally friendly ways (if you ignore all the fish that the tidal turbines will be turning into an all you can eat sushi buffet for the local gulls).
Well done Scotland!
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Isn't 1,5 - 2MW much the same amount a standard onshore wind turbine would provide? I assume the tidal power generation must have some advantages (e.g. more constant output?)
I don't think it's the fact that it's constant, as it's predictable - you know when the tides will happen, unlike wind where you might have a week of low wind.
The main benefit, I think, is having multiple generation sources as these will smoothen out any power drops from other sources.
Here's a description of an earlier attempt, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-worlds-firs... All the press releases and articles describing work in the Pentland Firth are breathlessly optimistic. The environment here is fantastically unkind to marine equipment and at least one previous project (can't recall or find the details) was destroyed in a very short time. To give you an idea, the current at Dun…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are your thoughts on the project as someone familiar with the area? Good, bad, mixed? As an outsider, it seems that Scotland is leading the world in offshore wind, which is someone Scottish Engineers could export to many other places. I see it as exciting.
It's a resource that's hard to ignore. There are good electricity grid connections nearby because of the, now decommissioned, fast-breeder reactor at Dounreay. It's a hellishly difficult place to work but that's kind of the point - if the technology can be made to work here then it will work anywhere. There's a long history of marine engineering in the country. There's a lot of good expertise here and the Scottish go…
That and the recent 400kV upgrade of the Beauly to Denny high voltage transmission line to provide additional capacity for renewable energy sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Scotland#Beau...
Apparently this is a 2MW turbine https://simecatlantis.com/2018/09/13/simec-atlantis-energy-u...
Isn't 1,5 - 2MW much the same amount a standard onshore wind turbine would provide? I assume the tidal power generation must have some advantages (e.g. more constant output?)