tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post7499042829740078091..comments2024-03-28T04:30:21.088+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: "Addicted to Subsidies"CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-89364257315871427732019-02-15T10:22:58.883+00:002019-02-15T10:22:58.883+00:00The modern world runs on energy. Massive subsidie...The modern world runs on energy. Massive subsidies for bird-choppers and the like doesn't alter the fact that given our existing technological capabilities, nuclear should still be providing a large percentage of our base load:<br /><br />https://www.city-journal.org/atomic-power<br />Wildgoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595915411975940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-24833874780298283712019-02-14T20:45:25.881+00:002019-02-14T20:45:25.881+00:00PS, there is no shortage of tidal ideas! - nearl...PS, there is no shortage of tidal ideas! - nearly 100 listed here<br /><br />http://www.emec.org.uk/marine-energy/tidal-developers/ Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-21894154547628415762019-02-14T11:54:41.410+00:002019-02-14T11:54:41.410+00:00A further ref here to east London tide mills - and...A further ref here to east London tide mills - and links to Brian Strong, one of the Three Mills experts<br /><br />http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.com/2015/05/east-greenwich-tide-mill-glias-journal.html<br /><br />Our 3 underground chambers were excavated by MOLAS in the 1990s - I can't find the archao reports right now, but they were clearly expensive to buildRaedwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-21574480720304425852019-02-14T11:02:58.570+00:002019-02-14T11:02:58.570+00:00There's an old tidal mill complex you can see ...There's an old tidal mill complex you can see in Bow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mills<br /><br />It's very old, but not unique<br /><br />No-one denies there is tidal energy to be had 'for free'. It's just that the techical aspects of how you go about it are pretty important. The jokers at the Swansea project are the merest subsidy-farmers of the most avaricious and unscrupulous kind Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-46024127026331534202019-02-14T06:52:23.247+00:002019-02-14T06:52:23.247+00:00One of the more interesting below ground obstructi...One of the more interesting below ground obstructions I encountered on one construction site on the banks of the Thames was a complex of three tidal storage chambers built in brick and dating back to the 17th/18th Cs. Not unusual, said EH. Used to power water-wheels at low tide that drove iron-working machinery above - both banks in the area of Blackwall having been at that time the locus of such activity<br /><br />The problem as Nick pointed out was silting-up - it seems they were impossible to clean-out, so as one became choked, another was built. Raedwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-73587221172036202212019-02-13T13:49:57.885+00:002019-02-13T13:49:57.885+00:00Good if you can get them. MarsOne didn’t.Good if you can get them. MarsOne didn’t.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-74625990636916127762019-02-13T13:12:13.734+00:002019-02-13T13:12:13.734+00:00You are all missing something.
1. As pointed out,...You are all missing something.<br /><br />1. As pointed out, when you slow the flow of silty water it deposits, eventually silts up completely <br /><br />2. Land Securities, Cardiff airport and developer Berkeley Group are backing this<br /><br />3. As discussed elsewhere GDP > Green<br /><br />... so ... <br /><br />you are looking at the first steps towards the first major post brexit great british industrial project - actually the first since the Wash<br /><br />... The reclamation of the severn estuary.<br /><br />after all the only thing more valuable than power is land.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-66773119105989541542019-02-12T20:44:12.944+00:002019-02-12T20:44:12.944+00:00It's the quality of the people deciding the su...It's the quality of the people deciding the subsidies and handle them that are the problem. <br /><br />Subsidies in the right places and protected from corruption add dynamism to an economy. <br /><br />After all that's all a government is - the management side of state subsidy. This lot are beholden to all manner of green crap and leftism. E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-1237120180876609642019-02-12T17:38:31.162+00:002019-02-12T17:38:31.162+00:00The Severn scam isn't about making electricity...The Severn scam isn't about making electricity, it's about making money.<br /><br />Where there is money to be made, damage to the environment doesn't bother these characters at all. <br /><br />Don CoxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-67109447793374936332019-02-12T17:09:30.857+00:002019-02-12T17:09:30.857+00:00The Severn Estuary is basically one huge,tidal flo...The Severn Estuary is basically one huge,tidal flow of fine mud which totally dominates every flat surface within it!<br />All the foreshores are metres deep in the stuff and the thaught of trying to keep huge,complicated static machinery operating in such horrendous conditions is wishful thinking.<br />The lagoons and all 'below water' equipment would pretty quickly be totally covered and smothered by this awful stuff!<br />All of this has,of course,been 'factored-in' on this ridiculous plan? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988701579400566359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-34691215035856150202019-02-12T16:59:35.971+00:002019-02-12T16:59:35.971+00:00Any fixed tidal installation faces some big proble...Any fixed tidal installation faces some big problems, esp silting, & the whole gamut of envo / wildlife<br /><br />There are some whackier ones out there, incl this (another hungry subsidy-grabber, going nowhere thus far despite their BS PR)<br /> <br />https://minesto.com/our-technology<br /><br />Wales always seems to attract these spongers: the Welsh govt was limbering up to 'invest' £400m in the lagoon, in return for inheriting the keys 35 years in, when the scoundrels would have taken their money long since, leaving the mid-life capex and the decommissioning liabilities with the Welsh. <br /><br />I guess they are pretty desperate for the jobs that are always airily promisedNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-27866716757435619822019-02-12T16:18:12.323+00:002019-02-12T16:18:12.323+00:00Were I looking at a tidal power option, I'd be...Were I looking at a tidal power option, I'd be looking at a tidal race somewhere and some means of storing electricity for when the race wasn't running. Pumped storage is the obvious trick; huge water wheels submerged in a tidal race lifting water up by several metres to fill a holding pond would be one way to go.<br /><br />Of course, your problems here are piping water to a suitable holding area and building capacious enough pumping systems to shift enough water to be useful.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-9738860415748095442019-02-12T16:02:06.253+00:002019-02-12T16:02:06.253+00:00If you check the Directors/Investor lists of the s...If you check the Directors/Investor lists of the subsidy wallahs, you'll find it is the "great and the good". <br /><br />Why else do they get into Parliament?<br /><br />Our system has been corrupt for so long, it barely deserves a comment, but well done for trying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-30551129889472164832019-02-12T14:30:54.779+00:002019-02-12T14:30:54.779+00:00My feeling is that the current promoters will hope...My feeling is that the current promoters will hope to con enough gullible members of the public to put up enough money to keep the show on the road until the next election (whenever that might be) and then if a Corbyn led government emerges, with its commitment to splurge trillions on 'infrastructure' they'll be handily placed to catch a massive multi-billion pound subsidy and off load their 'investment' for a massive profit. 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