| Re: Hydro Electricity on our Rivers
You could put wind turbines on it but you couldn't use it for hydro generation because it's not a dam. The Thames is a navigable waterway and 99.9% of the time the Barrier is down leaving the flow completely un-restricted. It's only raised when there is a very high tide or a storm surge. Some years it never gets raised at all (e.g. 1989, 1991) while other years it's up and down like a yo-yo (19 times in 2003).
Dave P.
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(a.k.a. "Horizontal Dave")
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