TOT Wave power

[The Natural Philosopher]

Of course. Dozens. You need a finished design before you can begin the approvals process.

Very few people can read and engineering drawing and they are somewhat trade secrets

[Chris Hogg]

Hmm...doing a little research suggests it's a bit of both, although even if it was all into the Med, provided the flow was strong enough, it would provide electricity all day and not intermittently. Maybe the flow isn't strong enough.

Quite a lot of info in these links, but I've not read any of them in any detail.

[Rod Speed]

alan_m [e-mail]> wrote

Bullshit.

So they disfigured the seascape instead and got a much worse result.

Wota packa fuckwits.

[Rod Speed]

Pity about the ships that need to go thru that straight.

A couple of small nukes makes a lot more sense.

[Rod Speed]

The ones in subs are nowhere near big enough.

It isnt even clear that the ones used in nuke powered aircraft carriers are either.

[ken]

Not possible, particularly in winter.

[Sam Plusnet]

Water flows through the Straits of Gibraltar in _both_ direction at the same time. Surface currents flow in one direction, deeper waters flow in the opposite direction. (Of course it's much more complicated than that.)

An interesting engineering challenge to invent something which makes the maximum use of that odd phenomena.

[Paul]

Funding for one of ours was provided a year ago, and all that's been produced so far, is PowerPoint slides. No shovels have turned earth. Nobody has poured a concrete pad. That's why I wonder if the SMR is even remotely ready to deploy. If the design is not "under way", then why even fund the f****ng thing. Maybe we wait until a demonstrator is built by the manufacturer.

I know the stupid thing is a slam-dunk. It just seems to be an awfully long way off at the moment.

Paul

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ours being who?

Rolls Royce has been building small reactors for nuclear submarines since the 1960s. And providing control and safety systems in nuclear power plants as well.

"Rolls-Royce is expecting to receive UK regulatory approval for its small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) by mid-2024 with a view to powering up by 2029 – two years ahead of schedule."

A slightly larger reactor seems far less a problem than the turbofan that bankrupted them a few decades back.

"By January 1971 Rolls-Royce had become insolvent, and on 4 February

1971 was placed into receivership, seriously jeopardising the L-1011 TriStar programme. Because of its strategic importance, the company was nationalised by the Conservative government of Edward Heath, allowing development of the RB211 to be completed."

Currently the delay is all civil service red tape.

[Tim Streater]

phenomenon.

[Sam Plusnet]

Compromise on:

Those odd phenomena.

[Tim Streater]

No need for a compromise; just use the singular and plural forms of the word as appropriate.