tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733351196079563561.post8656685810660071701..comments2024-01-23T13:28:34.769+00:00Comments on Gavin Macfie's 57 Degrees North: Renewable energy - could tidal power supply all the UK's electricity?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12158098044713574248noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733351196079563561.post-1319637220061028502011-05-03T11:21:55.678+01:002011-05-03T11:21:55.678+01:00If it's revenues to a putative Scottish excheq...If it's revenues to a putative Scottish exchequer you're thinking about, then consider oil revenues. Where is the UK's oil fund? There isn't one, the money was used first to keep the IMF from the door in the 1970s, pay dole money for unemployed industrial workers in the 1980s, and today is required to help keep the UK solvent in the latest banking crash. Contrast that with Norway Robert Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479924424503608056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733351196079563561.post-23684606232544239982011-05-03T09:52:13.279+01:002011-05-03T09:52:13.279+01:00Gav, I dont understand the connection with indepen...Gav, I dont understand the connection with independence.... I doubt they would start chopping down the pylons at the border with chainsaws in the event of Scotland becoming 'free'. Unless of course you are talking about creating an autonomous Scottish nationalised power company.. <br /><br />ErikAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733351196079563561.post-54885969778916788492011-04-24T12:16:41.129+01:002011-04-24T12:16:41.129+01:00"As a nation we have surprisingly little appr..."As a nation we have surprisingly little appreciation of our custodianship of Europe's last wild places."<br /><br />Doesn't this include coastlines? Tidal power is likely to destroy habitats far more completely than wind farms.Zednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733351196079563561.post-73445387214992108492011-04-09T12:37:47.372+01:002011-04-09T12:37:47.372+01:00if we ever manage to harness this much tidal power...if we ever manage to harness this much tidal power why not sell the excess to england?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com