Wave power - is it the way to go for the UK? On the face of it, the UK would seem the ideal country to deploy wave power technology, all that coastline to work from. But what do we have? An aborted project in Scotland with the company going bust, and now one of the power companies will not install the necessary infrastructure (cables etc) to connect up the one remaining installation planned for the Isle of Lewis in Scotland until 2017. What is missing from the news reports though is why pick Lewis? surely there are more accessible locations? I would have though that putting these wave generator machine devices near existing (or new) wind turbines would solve the issues - just hook them up to the existing cabling or install dual capacity if that's what' s needed. I don't know the technical considerations with wave machines - maybe they run at a different voltage to wind turbines. Whatever, I just think that the physical location should be a factor in the business case.
I paid the remaining money for my cycling holiday at Annecy yesterday - one month to go. How exciting is that? Very. For info: 9 days in a mobile home near Lake Annecy with son-in-law number 2 with the intention of riding all the hillocks, cols and mountains around the area. Should be good, if not a little tiring.
I'm well into the training - long rides etc and a reasonably fast session last night round my usual time trial course. It's not really a TT course of course, but it is to me.
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