I'm not against wind if it's done right. But when the whole country is littered by them, I really am not a fan of that.

Well we can have a mix of solar roof

Offshore onshore wind

And tidal

Tidal power alone if we utilised it in the UK I think can power almost half of our energy needs?

And we can sell our tidal products and tech

To other countries

How stable is that as an energy source?

We used to do this shit

Not sure honestly

Wouldn't you need gigantic battery farms or other shit?

I’ll have to look that one up

But yea battery is the main problem

Battery tech hasn’t kept pace

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1195254990144786432?s=19

This will cost a fortune jfc

Of course you can pair that up with hydrogen fuel cells production in the high-power hours or something like that.

But I do not think that is particularly efficient.

https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2016/10/tidal-and-wind-energy-in-the-uk

Obviously this site is bias

So I’d just focus on the stats in it

Rather than the waffle

But there are some interesting stats about halfway down I think

On tidal and wind

I’ll try and find a diff source though

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/huge-mistake-britain-throwing-away-lead-in-tidal-energy-say-developers

From what I’m reading in general, tidal seems to be a lot more reliable

Than other renewables

Makes sense I guess, ocean tides are fairly predictable and follow a pattern

I wonder how much research has been done about taking that energy out of the oceans

Well, a lot

It’s a new field compared to fossil fuel energy

i seem to remember some research about it being terrible for corals... but meh... corals....

Canada has a lot of tidal energy

also think about the poor surfers who lose all their waves 😛

UK doesn't really have corals, does it?

of course it does

I was under the impression that they're NOT very far up north.

After a few minutes of googling

Nothing about corals BUT

The vibrations can affect some ocean animals navigation lol