UK sites with metered electricity

The blades also last between 20 and 30 years in use. There is quite a lot of research going on at the moment of how they can recycle old blades so they don't have to go to landfill. Its probably a case of technology needing to catch up. I don't know if it would be any better but could they use carbon fibre? It  seems to work strength wise in F1 cars? Perhaps they would last longer?

David

Carbon fibre, whilst stronger, has a finite life. In my limited knowledge of the material, when used in sails, has increased performance but disintegrates without warning after a period of time. Same disposal problems as GRP.

Wave power is, as has been pointed out, wind dependant. Tidal power is regular and predictable and available progressively around our coast 24/7/365. We aren't investing enough in it. Major rivers also have current flow that can be harnessed. We seem to have learned nothing from history.

Our EV is made from carbon fibre but it does have an aluminium chassis. Carbon fibre can be recycled and it's very strong. (I hope you're wrong about it disintegrating without warning....)

Tidal power is something to think about....but I don't think CAMC can do much about that on sites.... 

If sea levels are rising, don't some areas need all the landfill they can get?😉

Some use by date wind generator blades have been used to partially shore up some land slips on railway banks

just a bit more info for those interested

A battery pack to give the same energy as a typical deisel rail passenger vehicle would weight an extra 40 tonnes so doulbe the weight of each vehicle

A proposed Hydrogen passenger train would need a quarter of its interiaor space to store the compressed hydrogen

Storing compressed hydrogen for a freight locomotive would  take up more space than the size of the current largest locomotive 

A battery freight locomotive would require batteries weighing 350 tonnes for the same range and performance as present to maintain timetables

So the Scotsman wouldn't be flying then?

JK

JVB, have you read this ? LINK

 Originally built in 1980 for London Underground, so nice bit of recycling going on there.

The heritage railway at Warcop does trips in an ex-Southern Region electric multiple unit running on its normal shunting battery packs.

Two two car units have been exported to Pennsylvania by one of the investors in Viva rail with a battery capacity to run up to 62miles in urban areas per charge

To get back on topic have a look at the CL owners post on >page 7< of the thread "CLs Instead of Club sites"  about metering of electricity. This should dispell some of the speculation made in this thread.

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