For more than 20 years directors and engineers from Hales
Energy and Hales Water Turbines have researched and developed more modern
versions of the reaction turbine for tidal harvesting of renewable energy.
The principles of Reaction turbines are greatly illustrated
in the 19th century as the early primary energy system to drive the newly
invented cotton jenny frames, powered by water flows and start the Industrial
Revolution and the factory system, until coal fired steam engines become used.
The modern world is facing the challenge to move away
from fossil based energy systems, both due to cost and dwindling fossil resources,
also, the now agreed global effect it has on Climate Change.
The new world, that will arrive after the present global Viral
Pandemic has run it's course, will, it is hoped, then the look to the next
great global challenge, to provide useable clean renewable energy without
pollution and danger.
The question of nuclear power is still open, with the
memory of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear contamination and the extreme
terrorist attack threat as shown on the Saudi Arabia Oil installation attack by
missiles.
To expand clean and predictable forms of renewable
energy, enough to fill the UK's expanding needs we need to expand our vision
and focus.
At a meeting held with the UK government's Minister of
Sate for Business, Energy & Clean Growth on the 25th February 2020,, a
Hales Water Turbine director gave a presentation and provided site tested data
to the Minister and his expert team as to the potential of LVWT (low-velocity
water turbines) such as the Hales vertical axis ducted tidal turbine, that can
be configured in a Tidal Fence arrangement to produce up to 286 MW of electricity per square kilometer in flow areas such as the Severn Estuary.
Hales Water Turbines is now in talks with the UK
government to find the best way forward to bring together the four items needed
to allow the UK to exploit this unlimited amount of renewable energy.
(1) The engineering requirements are known and can be
improved and expanded with further R&D.
(2) The government needs to control of the UK's tidal
resource through new arrangements with Crown Estates, National Grid,
Environment Agency, MMO and the several other agencies dealing with
environmental control to prevent any bottle necks to development.
(3) The UK's fishing industry, lead by the NFFO, SFF ,
IFCA and others, will greatly benefit
from the deployment of Tidal Stream Energy farms, they can be the guardians of
the sites as well as with sensible planning in the design and deployment, be
able to manage and harvest the marine life that will use the energy farms as
protected breeding grounds, this is especially useful for crustaceans and
coastal fish stocks.
(4) The final items is the expansion of Marine
Conservation Areas that can be built into the Marine Tidal Energy Farm and preserve the UK waters for future generations,
collaboration between, government, tidal industry, the UK fishermen and
conservation groups can lead to an clean renewable energy supply that can fore
fill ALL the UK energy needs and likely, if the government were to ring fence some
of the revenue generated by licensing and ownership of this tidal industry,
will also greatly reduce the national debt for the future generations.
Personal statement by:
Paul Hales
Director
Hales Water Turbines Ltd
30th March 2020.
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