The UK’s outstanding tidal resources could provide at least 10% of the country’s electricity.

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http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/tidal.html

Tidal Power

The UK’s outstanding tidal resources could provide at least 10% of the country’s electricity. The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has carried out a comprehensive study of tidal power in the UK, including an evaluation of proposals for a Severn barrage. Our report, ‘Tidal Power in the UK’, includes a series of recommendations to Government on how to develop our tidal resource, and emerging tidal technologies, to provide secure, low carbon electricity for the long term.
Download: Tidal Power in the UK

A Severn Barrage

A barrage in the Severn Estuary could supply 4.4% of UK electricity supply (17TWh) from the second greatest tidal range resource in the world, generating electricity for over 120 years. Developing a Severn barrage would result in significant climate change and energy security benefits.

However, it would have a major impact on the local environment, with the loss of up to 75% of the existing intertidal habitat, which is internationally protected. There would also be a number of impacts on local communities and the regional economy, and a high risk that unsustainable ancillary development would take place alongside any barrage project. The SDC has therefore laid down a series of tough conditions which a Severn barrage would have to meet in order to be considered sustainable.

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[hunter]

1. Oh what the hell. The ocean is almost dead anyways.

"However, it would have a major impact on the local environment, with the loss of up to 75% of the existing intertidal habitat..."

[NNadir]

2. You never see an anti-nuke use a sentence without a conditional tense.

If we could capture the energy of the flood of "coulds" from anti-nuke fundie sockpuppets, we could not only fuel all of the human race's energy needs, but could also remanufacture all of the oil that used to be in Texas and stick it back in the ground.

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