tidal turbines sound of sanda

[bikedaft]

idly reading thru chart corrections in PBO - 4 tidal turbines now in sound sanda. floating i think

from google;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evopod

they look like they are lit

its just that i've often been up for 24hrs by the time we get there...

they look to be N of the channel

anyone seen them yet? easy to miss?

 

[Mistroma]

Something was going to be placed in 20m water near Sound of Sanda at some point so that would make it around 0.5 - 1 nm from the shore as it is a lot deeper further out. I thought that Marine Scotland were still checking environmental aspects of the submission.

Pretty certain that they aren't deployed yet but don't know if it will be installed in 2013.

UPDATE: Looks as if it was supposed to be installed at the end of 2012. Press release on 4th Feb. said there is now a 7 year lease agreement to deploy and test from 2013.

http://www.oceanflowenergy.com/project-details2.html
http://www.oceanflowenergy.com/news20.html

I don't think that I usually went that close inshore but it is academic for me now as the boat will be in Spain for a while.

 

[bikedaft]

thanks

we'll be along that way end april, see how obvious they are (should be fairly, if they are still yellow!)

 

[Otter]

Hope they stop the daft wind turbines and focus on tide turbines - regular and predictable energy production.

 

[Sybarite]

Hope they stop the daft wind turbines and focus on tide turbines - regular and predictable energy production.

And not such an eyesore! Here's the one in Strangford Lough: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/17/waveandtidalpower.renewableenergy