HALES WATER TURBINES CHALLENGE UK ENERGY MINISTER KWARTENG

     
ON FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER 2019 ,  A DIRECTOR OF HALES WATER TURBINES LTD ATTENDED A DINNER ARRANGED BY THE BEXHILL AND BATTLE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION, WHICH HAD  THE RT HON KWASI KWARTENG MP, MINISTER OF STATE FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY AND CLEAN GROWTH AS THE GUEST SPEAKER,

   THE REASON THE HWT DIRECTOR ATTENDED THIS DINNER WAS TO CHALLENGE THE MINISTER ON A STATEMENT HE MADE IN A REPLY LETTER TO A HALES ENERGY SUPPORTER IN SEPTEMBER 2019.

  THE MINISTER  HAD STATED IN THIS REPLY LETTER THAT

  " MY OFFICIALS AND I DO NOT FEEL THE DEVICE COULD EXTRACT SIGNIFICANT POWER FROM SLOW MOVING TIDAL CURRENTS ".

 AT THIS REFERRED TO THE HALES WATER TURBINE EARLIER IN THE LETTER  AND AS HALES WATER TURBINES IS ONE OF THE FEW TIDAL TURBINE DEVELOPERS WHO SPECIALISE IN DESIGNING TURBINES TO HARVEST ENERGY FROM LOW-VELOCITY WATER FLOWS, THE COMPANY FELT THAT MINISTER KWARTENG SHOULD BE CHALLENGED.     TO PUT HIS "CHAMPIONS" UP AGAIN OUR "CHAMPIONS" IN AN OPEN CONTEST WITH THE PUBLIC AND MEDIA ABLE TO FOLLOW THE DEBATE.

  HOWEVER, AS THE GOVERNMENT IS AT A VERY STRANGE PLACE AT THE MOMENT WITH BREXIT ISSUES, THE MINISTER SUGGESTED WE, HALES WATER TURBINES LTD  SHOULD CONTACT THE LOCAL MP WHO WAS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE DINNER ALSO, AND  PROCEED FROM THERE.

    HALES ENERGY'S POSITION IS THAT IF THE UK IS TO ADVANCE IT'S DRIVE TO CARBON FREE THEN IT HAS TO HARVEST THE 3,230 SQUARE KILOMETERS OF UK TERRITORIAL WATERS OF WHICH OVER FIFTY PERCENT HAVE LOW VELOCITY FLOWS OF 1.0 M/S, THE TARGET FLOW RATES.
   ALSO, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS STARTED IN THE MANCHESTER AREA OF THE UK IN 1780's WITH WATER WHEELS DRIVING THE FIRST SPINNING JENNY'S PRODUCED BY ARKWRIGHT, TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THE WATT STEAM ENGINES ARRIVED IN NUMBERS.
  ALSO THE US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY HAS INVESTED   $ 6.7 MILLION DOLLARS SOLELY INTO RESEARCH OF LOW-VELOCITY FLOWS.

HEAL ENERGY HOPES THAT THE CHALLENGE WILL BE ACCEPTED.