In reply to 3leggeddog:
> Yup, ignorance and a nasty sounding name. Down with that sort of thing.
> If the process had been branded "eco mining" there would have been a lot less opposition.
Until people worked out it was greenwash, when seen in the context of how much more the government has been invested in fossil fuels compared to renewable energy? This stymies it's development, and people comment on how effective renewable energy is/n't. If we don't invest enough in it's development how can we expect anything else, expect it to improve?
We're surrounded by tides, and there's technology in the form of 'pods' which can be lowered into even environmentally sensitives waters, which protrude out of the water a little bit so they're not a hazard, and they can be raised up again to be maintained, and they reliably produce energy which doesn't fluctuate like wind power can.
That our country can be surrounded by tides and not exploit it as an energy source (if only to increase it's usefulness) is one of the stupider things our governments keep doing
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