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Iceland's volcanoes could power the UK: but at what cost?

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Power from Iceland? - maybe using superconducting cable. Interesting engineering challenge. We can learn new skills. Anyway, the UK shoreline suggests that the best will be harnessing tidal power. Abundant, regular, reliable and predictable. Compare with wind power, at low altitudes is very irregular. More to say, there are locations with strong currents where harnessing energy can be lucrative business, staying very close to to shore line. Good for start and for technology evaluation. Positive example: The trials at Strangford Lough, Belfast.

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23 Apr 2012

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9:39 pm

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