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Wind power, or the lack of it.

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Gingster Mon 12-Dec-22 08:51:46

I’ve never understood why tidal and wave power isn’t considered!

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Cabbie21 Mon 12-Dec-22 08:48:20

It seems to me that a lot more effort should be put into harnessing wave power. We are an island, so that source is never going to run out, if only it could be used to greater effect.

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Oldnproud Mon 12-Dec-22 08:18:53

My own feeling is that for the sake of energy security, the more sources of energy we have, the better, and what we really need is a need a big leap forward in efficient ways to store 'excess' wind-generated power to make it continuously available I don't know how feasible that is or if that is still a long way off or not.

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M0nica Mon 12-Dec-22 07:30:43

All fine and dandy when the wind blows, but in freezing cold weather like now, which is invariably accompanied by still windless conditions, it is currently only capable of providing us with 3% of the power we need gridwatch.co.uk/ .

If we are going to be carbon neutral in the next few decades, we need to reduce our reliance on wind power and develop other more reliable sources of carbon neutral power production; hydro power, tidal and wave power. These sources of power are all running commercially on a small scale in this country, but we should be focussing on these sources of power that come far closer to running 24/7 in all weathers than wind power can possibly do.

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