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

But there isn’t really any conclusive evidence on it

https://www.power-technology.com/features/tidal-energy-advantages-and-disadvantages/

The clean and compact part is interesting

Tidal power station is TINY for the amount of power it can produce

I think it was the long snaky ones that were the problem

Maybe, I’m trying to read about corals but I can’t find much

i guess they might have put a cork in those ones

Well, I think it makes a lot of sense to pursue this in the UK, lots of potential

I still think they should look into the cumulative effects of warming if we cover the place in solar panels... thats a lot of energy no longer being reflected off into space

It seems ideal for a small island

I want to see more nuclear too, lots more

I highly doubt it has any significant effect on warming.

Green area expansion alone will be way bigger in iteslf.

since earth is greening pretty fast