Getting Green Off The Grid

Only 10 percent? That doesn’t seem like much. Not compared with the clean energy it will produce.

Backstory: Cornwall’s battle of the ‘breaks’ | csmonitor.com

The good news is that the “Wave Hub” is predicted to generate 20 megawatts a year - enough to power 7,500 homes, or 3 percent of Cornwall’s overall demand, says Matthew Taylor, one of this region’s parliamentary backers of the plan. The bad news is developers believe it will reduce the height of waves by more than 10 percent, affecting a 20-mile stretch of beaches from St. Ives to Newquay, a larger Cornwall town considered to be the “surfing capital” of England.

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