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Nick Palmer wrote.. try looking at Blue
Energy.com.
The Sea Island design back in the 1980's( proposed)
looked remarkably similar to the Blue Energy project.
The Sea Island plan was scrubbed because of the cost per
kilowatt/hr produced PLUS the cost of maintenance.
Anyone familar with " offshore" projects can fathom ( no
pun intended) the problems with maintenance. What barnacles?
Our local State/City of Austin owned Fayette Power
Plant ( FPP) operated by the Lower Colorado River Authority ( LCRA) is
an efficent model for coal fired plants as far as cost
per K/W/H produced. Economics dictate in the real world. To change for coal is
going to take more brains than seawater. Agreed, there is energy stored in tides
BUT extracting that energy for electric power will take a " sea change" in
present conceptual designs.
Richard.
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