This is the new turbine generator just off Portaferry, Strangford Lough. When lowered there will be at least 9 metres between the surface and the top arc of the blade. So far there is no buoyage in the immediate vicinity.
You are requested to pass WEST of the device in both directions.
It won't take long to pass! Don't even think about bucking the tide...
We were doing 10.4knSOG on tickover at the time the pics were taken.
We can highly recommend a visit to Ireland, but the Giant's Causeway isn't a patch on Fingal's Cave I'm afraid.
http://trooncruisingclub.org/ 20' - 30' Berths available, Clyde.
Cruising, racing, maintenance facilities. Go take a look, you know you want to.
At last! Something that will generate electrickery in a PREDICTABLE manner.
Not like these stoopid wind driven abominations which either don't work because there ain't enough puff, or they have to be stopped because there is too much of the stuff!
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BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE CRACKED,
FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT
One or several of them in the Menai Straits would replace a NUKE power plant! As long as there is some room to get past without playing Indiana Jones with the blades.
Mersey could power one too, as could several Manx Headlands & the Isle of Mona. How about Corryvreckan, Luing, falls of Lora (may be too shallow?)
