12GW wind capacity.

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The UK currently has 12GW of generation capacity from wind.

It is currently generating 0.5 GW of electricity.

Shouldn't we be focussing on using tidal power instead of wind as it is predictable.
 
I work in green technology. What we should be doing at the moment, in my opinion, is instead of producing new technology to add to what we already have, we should be making what we have a lot more efficient. The UK is very wasteful in energy terms, particularly when it comes to large scale energy production and distribution. One particular example is cooling towers; cooling towers are used to cool steam created during the process of creating electricity. We all have boilers in our homes which produce hot water using gas...why not just use the hot water to skip the boilers and just get the hot water that was being produced anyway!!! How wasteful.
 
I thought tidal was more predictable and plentiful (in terms of max generation capacity) than wind in this country?
 
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OldCoals said:
The UK currently has 12GW of generation capacity from wind.

It is currently generating 0.5 GW of electricity.

Shouldn't we be focussing on using tidal power instead of wind as it is predictable.
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What we should be doing is putting money into upgrading the national grid so we can stop paying wind farms and the like to stop producing energy. It's just plain wasteful.
 
shine said:
He is not:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ear...218297/Wind-farms-paid-43m-to-switch-off.html

Here's why:

http://www.ref.org.uk/energy-data/notes-on-wind-farm-constraint-payments
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It was sarcasm at the comment.

Majority of energy production receive constraint payments.

And a link to The Renewable Energy Foundation! OH DEAR GOD! Its trustees are made of people with big links to the oil industry, who are also investing in boifuels. Guess what they want in the future.. Thats right biofuels.

Trying to track there funding is incredibly difficult.

But keep riding that nimby wave of misinformation.
 
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shine said:
I thought tidal was more predictable and plentiful (in terms of max generation capacity) than wind in this country?
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It is, if you place sea bed units in between islands such as the Shetlands, you could pick up tidal flows over most of the phase.

Lagoon storage and release can provide peak generation or cover slack water periods at high and low tide, in an estuary and in conjunction with normal tidal generators that would cover the bulk of the tide.

Tide times vary significantly around the coast so placing generation plants to cover the day would be useful.
 
Wind is also very predictable. With the way our grid system works they only need to know a few hours before hand.

I suggest everyone watch this:

BBC Bang goes the theory: Energy

 
Something I never understood.

People complain Solar/Wind are irregular generation and the excess is wasted as the is no way to store it.

People complain that getting energy from water (hydrogen) is wasteful as it take more energy than you get.

Can't we just combine the two? and use excess power that would go to waste anyway to create hydrogen for later use?


MooMoo444 said:
I think they should pull their fingers out and mine more coal.
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Would be a good idea, more and more people are unblocking their chimneys and dropping gas/electric heating in favour of real fire.

Plus Germany needs more and more coal as it's reactivating coal power stations to make up for the loss of it's nukes.
 
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