Comments on: Wave and tidal industry claims triple benefits: low carbon, cost reductions and a new UK industry https://www.newpower.info/2018/05/wave-and-tidal-industry-claims-triple-benefits-low-carbon-cost-reductions-and-a-new-uk-industry/ 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: Colin Megson https://www.newpower.info/2018/05/wave-and-tidal-industry-claims-triple-benefits-low-carbon-cost-reductions-and-a-new-uk-industry/#comment-27514 Colin Megson Sat, 05 May 2018 10:31:10 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=5004#comment-27514 Claire Perry and all those around here will fall for the fluffy cloud world of smooth-talking Hugh McNeil, where Mother Nature’s endless supply of free Sun and wind ‘fuel’ – by ‘definition’ – must be capable of saving the planet.

But away from the fluffy cloud world, free-fuel comes at a terrible economic cost to society, accompanied by environmental, ecosystem and species destruction.

Without counting the seabed structures, each turbine is 200 tonne of metal, so that’s 800 tonne of metals used to supply intermittent electricity to 2,600 homes for 25 years.

Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant will contain 142,000 tonnes of metal. It will supply 24/7 electricity to nearly 7.2 million homes for 60 years. That’s 19.75 kg of metal per home.

The MeyGen project would have to be built a 2nd time and be 10 years into the 3rd build to generate for 60 years – that’s a factor of X2.4 – 1,920 tonnes of metals. That’s 732 kg of metal per home.

For every 1 tonne of metal used in nuclear power plants, 37 tonne has to be used in this form of tidal power generation – FOR THE TURBINES ONLY!

Adding in the sea bed structures will take this up to 50X or 60X the metals used per MWh for nuclear power generation.

Homes [households] have to pay for for this ridiculous level of wasteful use of precious resources. When will this insanity stop?

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