Internet sources?

The first time I read some of those, they were in Latin. 😎

I have acknowledged that all of us will be looking in the dark for St Peter as not just the moon but a lot else catastrophic will have happened then and as the song goes “Knock Knock Knocking on heaven’s door”:D

You have missed the point completely.

Try reading as well as typing…… :p

Only if it makes the Moon vanish.

Saving face perhaps, Kabir? 😉

…. and another good thread bites the dust. 🙁

Okay a tide mill along the same lines of old. Sluice gate, reservoir, but what consistent tidal rise and flow can we be guaranteed for each location?

You do know that accurate tide tables for the entire UK coastline have been in existence for centuries now, don’t you?

Again may be useful for outlying islands but for mainland Britain would you not almost have to fence the entire coastline with a continuous tide mill concept power generator houses.

Poor in-landers like Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Brum, Cambridge, Oxford and most of the home counties – back to candles made from bees wax possibly.

That’s just silly.

How do you think electricity from our current power stations gets to these places now?

So far as I know, no-one is proposing to dismantle the National Grid so the existing supply network would remain in place.

May work but limited in application and hardly likely to cope with power requirements for mainland Britain.

It’s a good job that no-one here has made any such claim then, isn’t it?

But there’s no doubt that – given the right topography and sufficient investment – tidal power can make a contribution to a rational long-term energy policy.

The French are no mugs when it comes to national infrastructure, so you may find a little research into the Rance Estuary tidal barrage rather illuminating.

Shall we put you down as a “don’t know” then, Sandy?

:diablo:

Of course you may call me Lance, Jay. 🙂

Nuclear power is all well and good – comparatively speaking – but it won’t fill the fuel tanks of cars, vans and HGVs.

Wind farms and such have their place, mainly in small-scale local generation facilities where the prevailing local conditions favour them. You wouldn’t want to build a nuclear power station on the Isle of Lewis for example, would you? 🙂

Similarly, tidal energy will be viable in some locations so long as the Moon continues to orbit the Earth.

We need to recognise that there is no ‘magic bullet’ single source solution to our future energy needs, and that diverse energy requirements are best met by diverse sources of energy.

This is the basis of the kind of rational long-term policy that SkyHigh and I were talking about earlier.

Time really is running out, and the only question is how quickly.