Sentences with phrase «tidal power over»

The Guardian, recently ran a story in the normally breathless fashion about how tidal power over 1,000 kms of the UK coastline could supply 11 % of the UK's electricity consumption.

Science Editor / / www.polijam.com Your Guide to the News Around the Web [ANDY REVKIN reacts: I actually see it as progress to have environmental stories out of their ghetto and spread around the paper (like the Greentech hydrogen - car story, the piece you mention above, which is here online, the National story about tidal power over the weekend, etc..

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The Liberal Democrats have long fought for a greater use of tidal power and for a programme of tidal lagoons, including at Cardiff, Colwyn Bay, and Newport, creating over 34,000 jobs in Wales alone and opportunities for hundreds of businesses in the supply chain.

Tidal power may be destined to remain a niche player in the U.S. energy portfolio, but the low - carbon energy source has one key advantage over wind and solar — it's as dependable as the moon's phases

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

Cage's pianissimo is unlike the stentorian voice - over of many gallery films, and the selections (the enchantingly lyrical «Lecture on Nothing» and the 1966 version of «Radio Happening») are wonderfully congruent with the understated tidal power of the art in the show, particularly the sculpture.

Energy secretary Ed Miliband says that by 2020 he wants 40 % of electricity to come from low - carbon sources: over 30 % from renewables — overwhelmingly wind power, but also biomass, and tidal energy — and the rest from nuclear and carbon capture and storage.

Tidal - power partisans praise its reliability and easiness on the eyeâ $» in contrast with the giant wind turbines near some New England tourist havensâ $» and note that over half of Americaâ $ ™ s electricity is used in states that border on the ocean.

Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million over their lifetimes, according to BNEF data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustrpower, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustrPower Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustralia.

We've been writing about wave and tidal power for over 3 years.

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.