The UK government has granted planning permission for what is being billed as the world's first large scale wave farm. As reported by EDIE, the wave farm, 15 miles off the coast, should generate some 20MegaWatts, thereby providing up to 3% of Cornwall's domestic electricity needs once operational in 2009.
If this works well, perhaps, in another couple of decades or so, we'll see these all around the UK's coast, probably alongside a forest of offshore wind farms.
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Fingers crossed.
Waves operate 24/7, year long. And coast we got.
What I am less hopeful on is the aggressive action of tons of fast moving salt water on man's puny engineering abilities.
So in enviROI terms, I remain interested in construction and ongoing operation costs.
If they're made out of metal the disposal may be easier to forsee, especially bearing the iron idea to act as a carbon sink!
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