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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
While I accept that tides come and go, isn't it possible for the electricity which is generated by the tides to be stored?....and at least the tides are going to turn up twice each day....without fail...which cannot be said of the wind.
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Margaret, replacement battery packs for those silly electric cars can cost over £10,000 and they're basically thousands of watch batteries wired together. And the stupid cars still won't do much over 100 miles.
And as the electric they use comes from gas/coal/atomic stations which are only 60% efficient the cars aren't that green anyway.
At the moment we don't have any way of storing bulk electricity- we have to generate it as we want it. And
when we wan't it-not just when it's windy!