JERSEY is 15 years away from harnessing marine energy, according to retired Jersey Electricity Company managing director Mike Liston.
Mr Liston retired three weeks ago from the helm of the company after 16 years. He chairs the Renewable Energy Group Ltd, a company that builds renewable energy schemes like wind farms in the UK, eastern Europe and Canada. But Mr Liston says the economics to make the scheme work will prevent them from being a reality in Jersey for another 15 years.
And he says that the advantages for Jersey are not in energy production, but for selling the ‘clean’ energy in Europe where tariffs make it more valuable, and for maintaining energy security for the Island.
Pictured: A wave turbine that could be built off Jersey
Article posted on 25th October, 2008 - 11.04am
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If penicillin had been 5 years in development, the allies would have lost so many troops due to injuries that lead to loss of limbs or death that WW2 could have been lost. It was a similar situation with the Manhattan Project to build an atomic weapon which condensed maybe 5 years of R&D into a scant year or so.
The world is at war, but not with nature but with the mistakes and situation which we have been living in since the industrial revolution.
We need the same mindset that prevails in wartime applied to finding solutions to the worlds pollution and energy problems.
Nature is our strongest allie in this fight and only by working in harmony with nature can we prevail and in fact, survive.
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