Comments on: From the archive: Swansea’s tidal lagoon – how does it work and where are the costs? https://www.newpower.info/2016/01/from-the-archive-swanseas-tidal-lagoon-how-does-it-work-and-where-are-the-costs/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Scottish Scientist https://www.newpower.info/2016/01/from-the-archive-swanseas-tidal-lagoon-how-does-it-work-and-where-are-the-costs/#comment-19258 Scottish Scientist Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:58:38 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=997#comment-19258 The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon proposal’s primitive and inferior single lagoon design is not appropriate even as a “first of a kind” renewable energy generation project.

The advanced and superior double lagoon design, which I explain here -
https://scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/double-tidal-lagoon-baseload-scheme/
- is much more appropriate for generating electricity.

The main scientific, engineering and technical flaw with the inferior single lagoon design is that it does not offer valuable “dispatchable” power, on demand, when it is wanted by c ustomers, when they are happy to pay for power.

Rather, this inferior single lagoon scheme supplies a lot of worthless power only when it is convenient for the tides and “NEVER MIND” with what power the customer demands when and is willing to pay for.

With the inferior single lagoon design there are times during the day when no power whatsoever can be generated, whenever the level of the water inside the single lagoon is the same as the level of the sea outside the lagoon.

Scottish Scientist
Independent Scientific Adviser for Scotland
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