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Editor's letter: The right decision, sadly

The government has made the right decision on the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. No matter how much we would like to have a world-first project, it’s hugely expensive and has very few of the attributes that we want from new technologies.

It is true that offshore wind was expensive at first, but what has brought the cost down is serial construction and producing hundreds of turbines. Tidal power just isn’t the same.

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