ABC’s Maggie Rulli visits the Orkney Islands to explore a new technology and whether it could change how we generate power.
49 thoughts on “Is tidal power a reliable form of clean energy?”
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ABC’s Maggie Rulli visits the Orkney Islands to explore a new technology and whether it could change how we generate power.
Comments are closed.
😲🥰👏🙌 "Well understood and well done."
Fantastic!!
Let's see uhhhhh Yes.
And what is the upkeep cost? For example. The amount of paint? The cost to scrub the barnacle off of it? Cost to man and maintain etc etc?
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We all gotta live on the ocean now 👌 Yeah, oil is still king. Keep trying guys.
Can’t imagine the maintenance on that that thing being in the salt water.
No.
Thank goodness for Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
It saved me wasting six minutes!
Say it with me. NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
Hopefully this becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.
Down the road from where I grew up, between Newhaven and Seaford, there are some abandoned tide mills dating from the the1760s, since the UK has tides up to 7m there is surely some scope to generate power from this.
"Tidal wave energy cause cancer " – Trump probably
If they study what underwater sonic frequencies repel certain sea life, they can have a way to keep the underwater wildlife away from the blades.
Oarkney has the highest elect rates in UK, and relies on diesel. This fish chopper salesman and now ABC news are how it happened.
Tidal is not “consistent” in the sense that it is always on, rather it’s on a couple times a day, about 25% of the time at full power equivalent.
BTW, about six thousand of those yellow turbines anchored offshore would be needed to match the energy of one 2GW nuclear plant, plus six thousand turbine to shore power cables, plus some gas or diesel power plant hiding onshore to cover slack tide, which is what Orkney does now.
The wind in Oarkney does not “whip all year long”
“Is tidal power a reliable form of clean energy”
Any objective investigator would look at the history of such projects and report the history, to give the listener context and not encourage the idea that this is something new, if it is not. Turns out the first tidal power study was done by the US in 1924, another in ‘56. In the hundred years since, a few dozen tiny projects have been built in all the world. That knowledge alone indicate serious shortcomings, which are a) tidal power is highly intermittent, requiring some fossil fuel behind the curtain, b) tidal turbines inevitably chop up the marine life flowing in/out of tidal estuaries causing the cancellation of every single attempt at major projects, c) maintenance of moving mechanical systems in salt water is expensive.
When one is instead a rah rah advocate of anything labeled clean without regard to what clean means, then you do videos like this instead.
Tidal power is as reliable as the Moon is.
No. Enough trash in the ocean already also maintaining anything at ocean level is tough. Salt water destroys everything…
Predictable gives upper hand compare to wind or solar.
This shouldn't be public information. I just saw that machine transform.
"Is tidil power reliable?" Is the moon likely to disappear any time soon?
Very cool!
Somebody is bound to claim that harnessing the tides will slow the Moon down.
Do you know if any other natural phenomenon that is as reliable as tides? As long as we have bodies of water and a moon. I don't see much change in the future…
2:36 lies. How about thermal. And in the desert, the sun. Don't make up lies. Everybody knows that salt water is the harshest of conditions. Let me know what the maintenance bill is like on that thing.
What would happen if they ran 10 or 50 next to each other
Everything sounds good on paper. What happens when water freezes or a hurricane just throws it. Lets just explore our options.
Glad they thought outside the box! This is great progress!
The answer is no… Salt alone is too corrosive for anything long term even with pricy difficult and constant maintenance…
Trump says Windmills cause cancer. Will underwater turbines cause cancer as well?
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Let’s go Brandon!!
Shout out to George Floyd on 540 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals🖕!
Интересно …а сколько нужно таких хреновин…что заработал металлургический завод…ну или метро в Лондоне ?😁😂
We already have Free Energy the Earth produces from the zenneck Wave that circles the earth. Nikola Telsa knew this but JP Morgan Chase stopped him because it would of Hurt is Copper Industry.
https://youtu.be/f6OLpT59kE0
A fish swims by minding its own business and BAM! LMAO
Thank
Been a looooooooong time sense I've been able to Thumbs UP on an ABC report….way to go
Go Nuclear
It's time we use natural energy everywhere on earth.. Sun 🌞.. water 🌊.. wind….and so on. A thing that should have been done decades ago in full action
I'm sorry but that william dude is kind of an ass… 😂😂
Just hope it doesn't ruin the Orkneys. Everything man comes up with ruines something!
Revisit Wave Generator Farms ????
The ocean is a big energy generator and storage. This is an interesting way of harvesting this big reservoir of energy. It certainly needs more investment and it will become price competitive and be the main energy source for coastal populations.
If it can’t do much in the next 10 years… let’s take care of HUMANITY Now!!! People are going hungry in America you fools!!!!!
Wow this is amazing!
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