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With 11,072-mile of coastline on its Hotbed of innovation
doorstep, it is perhaps unsurprising that the These pioneers inspired a generation of British
UK has become an international trailblazer in scientists, who are now putting an
wave and tidal power technology. However, unprecedented level of effort into marine
many of today’s wave and tidal power devices power research and development. As
have their roots in the seventies, says Atkins’ Kermode points out, “are simply too
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Rod Rainey, who has played a key role in the expensive.
development of marine energy technology for Indeed conducting trials is to be the secret
three decades. “It was during that time that to getting all forms of marine power off the
fears about rising oil prices first prompted ground, says Kermode at the European
interest in unlocking the power of the sea,” Marine Energy Centre. “We need to get
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theoretical side of marine power was works, what doesn’t work and what types of
conducted then.” technology are most effective.”
Neil Kermode is managing director of the Current trials, he says, focus on specific
Orkney-based European Marine Energy types of technology, rather than on directly
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words ‘marine’ and ‘energy’ could go hand in generation in the UK should be at least
hand,” Kermode says. Salter designed a comparable to what nuclear energy is
revolutionary “nodding duck” wave power currently delivering,” he says.
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I don’t believe that the current turmoil in the financial markets It is our core market, the financeilaelc sterircviitcye as ti nadrouustnryd, thaet s haams e timceh. oice in the shorftr-otmer mal,l bquta irtt’se rims tpoo retadnutc teh caat rsbuopnp leym ainsd sions,
will greatly impact on the throughput and size of our business. been hit the hardest. Yet, in order to find solutions and get demand are broutghhet cinatsoe bfoarl amncaeri nife t hpeo winderu sctarny ios ntoly sguert vive.
However, it may affect when we decide to do things in the things back on track, people need to travel. So, in one sense,
future. Our long-term masterplan sets out what we will do, we have actually benefited from recent events. Do you expect to lose out in the future, with the push
rather than defining when we might do it. We have to be able As the economic downturn continues, we may see some towards a low-carbon economy?
to react to market circumstances, and the advantage of being drop in demand for our off-peak services, but if any of our peak Aviation, along with all other industries, must minimise its
a smaller organisation is that we’re more agile, so can react slots were to become available, someone would grab them very carbon footprint and cover its external costs. The biggest
more quickly. quickly. All of the airlines at LCY work hard to position step forward in this will come in the next three or four
One of the biggest mistakes in the aviation industry is raising themselves here and they are unlikely to give their slots away years with the introduction of the Emissions Trading System
capacity too soon – that’s when businesses go bankrupt and gladly. Companies will take a long-term view. for aviation. That will prove expensive for the most
people get fired. Just this year, we have seen huge additional In the aviation industry more generally, we’ve already seen polluting operators.
capacity at Heathrow with Terminal 5, at a time when market some of the weak carriers go to the wall. But it has been more From an environmental perspective, it isn’t so much a
conditions are rather flat. The ideal, which is rarely achieved, is because they lacked sufficient cash to see them through the question of whether we should have aviation or not, but how
to add capacity at exactly the point that you need it. difficult times, rather than due to a bad business model. we manage and mitigate the environmental impacts.
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