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by ksec 863 days ago
Too good to be true?

I assume this does no harm to fish. And electricity can be easily transported back to land ( there was no mention of how this was done in the video ). Since it is portable, small, fits into a 40ft Container. And you could mass manufacture these, ship it with container. There isn't another manufacturing problem and transportation problem like wind turbine.

If Yes. You could have tens of thousands of these in north of Scotland of or seas around England.

Surely there has to be a catch somewhere. Right?
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PaulRobinson 863 days ago
I will 100% guarantee that the unique brand by Brit NIMBY-ism will rise, and some of my fellow citizens will complain about them affecting the nesting habits of the migrating lesser-spotted blue crested greeb warbler or something, and that'll be that. It's happened to many wind projects, this won't be any different (despite there being no evidence).

Never mind that if CO2 in the atmosphere continues to climb, all those birds will die anyway, the global food ecosystem will go crazy, hundreds of millions of people will die and so on: that picturesque estuary has to remain unencumbered with man-made engineering, or else!

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Sammi 863 days ago
Production of the kites is partly in the UK and there are projects in the works to put them to use there: https://minesto.com/holyhead-deep/
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jokoon 863 days ago
> Surely there has to be a catch somewhere. Right?

Underwater things are expensive to maintain, nothing is 100% waterproof, so rust rust rust.

Underwater cables are no joke either, especially if you're building a network of sea cables. Making watertight is not cheap.

And there is the question of doing high power electricity under seawater. I'm not an engineer in that field, that I think it is going to being a whole lot of new headaches.

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ksec 863 days ago
Underwater cables has been done as in all the Network connection across continents. The same with high power electricity under seawater.

None of these are new. However they are all 1 to 1 build up. These new tidal kite requires many to one. And I am not quite sure how this could be done. At least cheaply.

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vitiral 862 days ago
> Underwater cables has been done as in all the Network connection across continents.

Those are stationary cables. I don't know anything about this field, but I guarantee you that there are going to be differences.

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