It’s day 10 of 13 on the Energy Externalities game and its become clear that player fatigue is setting in (or maybe its Easter Holidays). “I don’t want to play any more, scoring technology already proven to not work”. To all players, please stick with it, the results continue to provide indicators with some precision. More on this below the fold. To rekindle interest, I’m jumping to tidal lagoons that we have featured in a number of prior posts.
Tidal power comes in three main flavours: 1) Tidal barrage, e.g. La Rance in France 2) Tidal lagoon, e.g. the proposed Swansea bay lagoon and 3) Tidal flow, e.g. MeyGen in the Pentland Firth of Scotland.
This entry will look only at tidal lagoons since Energy Matters has looked into the proposals for the Swansea Bay lagoon on a number of occasions. If stamina lasts, I hope to include the now operational tidal flow MeyGen tidal flow project in the Pentland Firth of Scotland.
A Trip Round Swansea Bay
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon and Baseload Tidal Generation in the UK
Previous entries in this series:
The Externalities of Energy Production Systems (Day 1 Coal)
Energy Externalities Day 2: Gas-fired-CCGT
Energy Externalities Day 3: Biomass-Fired-Electricity
Energy Externalities Day 4: Nuclear Power
Energy Externalities Day 5: Wind Power
Energy Externalities Day 6: Hydroelectric Power
Energy Externalities Day 7: Solar Photo Voltaics
Energy Externalities Day 8: Diesel
Energy Externalities Day 9: Solar Thermal or Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
A brief roundup of results to date
Counting Andy D we have 16 full-time players. I have begun to write this up as an article for Energy Policy. Having done some quite extensive searches, I have not turned up any analogous work done before. The closest I have come to is a survey of public opinion which ranked solar PV top while this work ranks PV bottom. This will make interesting reading for the politicians.
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