Comments on: Wave Farm Swims For Power In Portugal http://www.gearfuse.com/wave-farm-swims-for-power-in-portugal/ Technology, Science, Culture. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:49:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: tahrey http://www.gearfuse.com/wave-farm-swims-for-power-in-portugal/comment-page-1/#comment-161498 tahrey Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:58:38 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/?p=9391#comment-161498 The sad thing is we could have had an earlier version of these working en masse in the UK 20-25 years ago (and protecting the more fragile bits of our coastline from storm waves, to boot), but someone in the government dealing with power generation either botched or deliberately tampered with the cost:benefit figures (shares in BP, perhaps?) making it look prohibitively expensive to run. Rather than, you know, fairly cheap and cheaper with every passing day. Good job someone in Portugal finally had the sense to order up some of the improved versions. Let's see how they do for the NEXT two decades.... The sad thing is we could have had an earlier version of these working en masse in the UK 20-25 years ago (and protecting the more fragile bits of our coastline from storm waves, to boot), but someone in the government dealing with power generation either botched or deliberately tampered with the cost:benefit figures (shares in BP, perhaps?) making it look prohibitively expensive to run. Rather than, you know, fairly cheap and cheaper with every passing day.

Good job someone in Portugal finally had the sense to order up some of the improved versions. Let’s see how they do for the NEXT two decades….

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