Now they're trying to steal our SEA....

BaconZombie

Irish Sea Could Provide 5% of UK's Electricity

The tidal power of the Irish Sea could be harnessed to provide more than five per cent of the UK's electricity needs engineers claim.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/wavepower/5050161/Irish-Sea-could-provide-five-per-cent-of-UKs-electricity.html

PirateShampoo

If it could supply 5% of electric of a country of 90 million then what could it supply to a country of just 5 mill ?

AnonoBoy

PirateShampoo wrote: »

If it could supply 5% of electric of a country of 90 million then what could it supply to a country of just 5 mill ?

eh.... 90%?

CreepingDeath

PirateShampoo wrote: »

If it could supply 5% of electric of a country of 90 million then what could it supply to a country of just 5 mill ?

You don't know how to get 5% of 90 ?

90 / 100 * 5 = 4.5 million.

We don't have to give electrity to the midlands, they won't miss what they don't have

BlitzKrieg

TEY TUK OUR SEA!

Genghiz Cohen

Dey Terk Er Jerbs!

Tech3

What else did they take? The North? They can have it

CreepingDeath

They tuk our tides....

No more waves or surfing.

BlitzKrieg

No more waves or surfing.

Wait til the british government has to deal with the irish surfing community. Will make the IRA look like the scouts

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

Not if i can help it!

Fratton Fred

PirateShampoo wrote: »

If it could supply 5% of electric of a country of 90 million then what could it supply to a country of just 5 mill ?

i know everything the Brits do gets exagerated on here, but 90 million?

that is some population explosion!!

Anyway, I thought the Irish Sea was so radioactive it could power a small town all on its own, without any waves!!

CountingCrows

They already stole our sea - Sellafield

Captain-America

I'm sure there's enough sea to go around.

Purple Gorilla

The population of the UK is 60 million

cnocbui

It's closer to 61 million. Ireland would need something like the Severn estuary to take advantage of the tides. Could probably dam lots of bays in Connemara.

ejmaztec

Can't we hide it in a cleverly concealed bucket?

Riddle101

If we could use the sea could we not use the Atlantic Ocean as well?

Captain-America

Riddle101 wrote: »

If we could use the sea could we not use the Atlantic Ocean as well?

NO!

ejmaztec

Fratton Fred wrote: »

i know everything the Brits do gets exagerated on here, but 90 million?

that is some population explosion!!

Anyway, I thought the Irish Sea was so radioactive it could power a small town all on its own, without any waves!!

He's heard about the number of illegals being squeezed out of the chunnel.:eek:



or he got confused when someone told him that they were a bunch of shaggers.

Snowie

there's lots more water out there

Mr.Lizard

Sure they've already polluted the fcuk out of it. They're welcome to it.

Mr.Lizard

Riddle101 wrote: »

If we could use the sea could we not use the Atlantic Ocean as well?

No! That sea belongs to the lost civilisation of Atlantis.

Snowie

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

No! That sea belongs to the lost civilisation of Atlantis.

Actually the lamoreons are the civilisation who owned atlantis...

nice1franko

they've invented a way to turn piss into electricity now?

BlitzKrieg

i thought we were atlantis?

john concannon

Come back Stephen Ireland

Capt'n Midnight

cnocbui wrote: »

It's closer to 61 million. Ireland would need something like the Severn estuary to take advantage of the tides. Could probably dam lots of bays in Connemara.

or one across the Shannon


http://www.liv.ac.uk/engdept/tidalpower link with maps
http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/engdept/tidal_power/tidal_range_map.jpg map


world tides http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/M2_tidal_constituent.jpg
we've got world class tides

tides in the med in cm
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&file=uploads%2Fpics%2Famplitude_maree.gif

Capt'n Midnight

nice1franko wrote: »

they've invented a way to turn piss into electricity now?

wait until you hear about the electicity interconnector, people say it's just electrons but we know BNFL will try and dump a lot of beta particles on us

ART6

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

wait until you hear about the electicity interconnector, people say it's just electrons but we know BNFL will try and dump a lot of beta particles on us

A simple way to avoid that. If you hold two wires close together to get a spark between them, and if that spark is blue, then it's natural electricity. If it's green it's nuclear. There ye go. The appliance of science.:D

Fratton Fred

isn't there a couple of dirty great big windmills off the coast of Wicklow somewhere?

What gives you lot the right to nick our wind?

Fratton Fred

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

wait until you hear about the electicity interconnector, people say it's just electrons but we know BNFL will try and dump a lot more beta particles on us

FYP

Terry

Let them have the sea.
We've got an ocean.

The_Minister

PirateShampoo wrote: »

If it could supply 5% of electric of a country of 90 million then what could it supply to a country of just 5 mill ?

The effectiveness of tidal power is very much dependent on the shape of the coastline.
There are very few suitable places for it in the world; just because Britain can use it, doesn't mean that we can.

I read the thread title and thought someone was trying to steal our stamped addressed envelopes

AlmightyCushion

Let them have it, there's plenty more fish in the sea.

javaboy

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Let them have it, there's plenty more fish in the sea.

They tried fishin' power before and look how that turned out.

^May be my worst pun yet.

karen3212

Trinny. wrote: »

Let them have the sea.
We've got an ocean.

i don't think any country could handle that much power.:P

I also thought this thread was going to be about envelopes

Terry

karen3212 wrote: »

i don't think any country could handle that much power.:P

I also thought this thread was going to be about envelopes

The brown envelopes will be used to carry payments from those who want to buy the surplus power.

ejmaztec

Trinny. wrote: »

The brown envelopes will be used to carry payments from those who want to buy the surplus power.

This envelope business is a Red Herring.




.......are you doing a tv show called "What not to post"?:o:o

galwayrush

Here's a radical idea, why don't we harness the free power that's all around our coast and sell it to the rest of europe.:rolleyes:

Kurtosis

Deleted User wrote: »

I read the thread title and thought someone was trying to steal our stamped addressed envelopes

karen3212 wrote: »

i don't think any country could handle that much power.:P

I also thought this thread was going to be about envelopes

Stamped addressed envelope...SAE.

Blush_01

The Irish National Grid is supported by the British one. They're stealing our sea and selling it back to us.

Lads, we should have got there first.

thebman

Blush_01 wrote: »

The Irish National Grid is supported by the British one. They're stealing our sea and selling it back to us.

Lads, we should have got there first.

It does sound more like one of our economic policies alright.

A7X

Fratton Fred wrote: »

isn't there a couple of dirty great big windmills off the coast of Wicklow somewhere?

What gives you lot the right to nick our wind?

The famine

Tech3

galwayrush wrote: »

Here's a radical idea, why don't we harness the free power that's all around our coast and sell it to the rest of europe.:rolleyes:

I think that what there doing now with the U.K

they have invested in a high power cable to connect the uk to Ireland in the last few days

Joey the lips

Dont worry when the interconnector is built we can sell them all the excess electricity we have from the wind power in the atlantic

Off course both projects assume that we will continue to have the benefit of the gulf stream and the north atlantic drift.

Both currents are forcast to decline with Global warming

BrokenArrows

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Dey Terk Er Jerbs!

Deerk Deerrrrrr!!

Altreab

Joey the lips wrote: »

Dont worry when the interconnector is built we can sell them all the excess electricity we have from the wind power in the atlantic

Off course both projects assume that we will continue to have the benefit of the gulf stream and the north atlantic drift.

Both currents are forcast to decline with Global warming

no we wont ...because eirgrid wont fecking build the infrastructure to transfer the power from the west coast to the east!! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Joey the lips

Altreab wrote: »

no we wont ...because eirgrid wont fecking build the infrastructure to transfer the power from the west coast to the east!! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Laugh my fcuking head off. You forget Fianna Fail own most of the land across so it will be built and will go underground I would like to bet!

Capt'n Midnight

The_Minister wrote: »

The effectiveness of tidal power is very much dependent on the shape of the coastline.
There are very few suitable places for it in the world; just because Britain can use it, doesn't mean that we can.

have posted tidal maps back a bit, we have the same sort of tidal ranges, and less of the bays on the west have big harbours and stuff to interfere with building main problem is that a lot of bays are too deep but tidal turbines already installed up north so that's another option

and wave power, yeah we could do that

javaboy

What will the inevitable whingers who are against any kind of progress call their protest group? "SeaShell to Sea" kinda sounds stupid.