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Does the Severn Barrage make Zero Carbon goals achievable?

With incredibly testing time-scales for the move to 100% Zero Carbon new buildings in Wales, perhaps the proposed Severn barrage presents an opportunity to make this dream of the Welsh Assembly government achievable.

Here’s my plan…

The proposed barrage will generate over 8.6 gigawatts of electricity, that’s enough to power all the houses in Wales with renewable energy. So if the welsh can requisition all the power generated by the barrage - ignoring that fact that the southern end of the barrage will hit land somewhere in Somerset, then the renewable energy part of the Zero Carbon equation will be met and Wales at least can happily move toward the Zero Carbon utopia…

Of course this is ignoring all the objections to the barrage in relation to cost and impact on wildlife, but it does make you think…

Reference:
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Resources/Daily-news/Renewable-energy2/Barrage-on-Severn-renewable-energy-shortlist

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