Bankers and fracking

[cloughie]

Don't worry - I was conflating the two as well. If you could elaborate on why you think tidal energy production might upset environmentalists I'd be interested to learn, because from what I understand there would be minimum detriment?

There was a wave hub set up in Hayle a few years which does not seem to have taken off. Looks like, as is often the case with ideas in UK it has been sold on to a foreign investor!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Hub

[Serial_Apologist]

There was a wave hub set up in Hayle a few years which does not seem to have taken off. Looks like, as is often the case with ideas in UK it has been sold on to a foreign investor!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Hub

Post-colonial apathy and complacency has exacted a terrible revenge on the best that British capitalism had to offer "its own".

[oddoneout]

Don't worry - I was conflating the two as well. If you could elaborate on why you think tidal energy production might upset environmentalists I'd be interested to learn, because from what I understand there would be minimum detriment?

Tidal energy systems that use a barrage/lagoon system are the ones that upset environmentalists and others. Building a dam across an estuary is a fairly major and disruptive thing to do, and has obvious implications for the wildlife of the area. Installations that involve putting turbines in the body of water, driven by the tidal flow through them, are less problematic (note I don't say "without problems") and arguably more realistic in economic and speed of delivery terms, see my #29.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tidal energy systems that use a barrage/lagoon system are the ones that upset environmentalists and others. Building a dam across an estuary is a fairly major and disruptive thing to do, and has obvious implications for the wildlife of the area. Installations that involve putting turbines in the body of water, driven by the tidal flow through them, are less problematic (note I don't say "without problems") and arguably more realistic in economic and speed of delivery terms, see my #29.

Thanks.