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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Pentland Firth"”.
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Learning from Early Commercial Tidal Energy Projects in the Puget Sound, Washington and the Pentland Firth, Scotland
… States, and MeyGen Ltd.’s Phase 1A project in Pentland Firth, Scotland, United Kingdom. With a focus on stakeholder learning, the research draws upon scholarly literature on innovation systems and technical innovations systems. This qualitative study uses in-depth, semi-structured, elite …
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An assessment of tidal energy and the environmental response to extraction at a site in the Pentland Firth
… This thesis explores tidal stream energy in the Pentland Firth (Scotland, UK). This channel contains some of the most promising tidal stream energy sites in the world and is set to become<br/>host to the first large-scale arrays of tidal stream turbines, but its detailed characteristics were …
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Hydrodynamic Characterisation and Wave Current Interaction around Dunnet Head in the Pentland Firth with Implications for Marine Energy Generation
… Interaction Around Dunnet Head in the Pentland Firth with Implications for Marine Energy Generation<br/>The Pentland Firth in the north of Scotland connects the North Atlantic Ocean to the west with the North Sea to the east. A strong hydraulic gradient drives very strong flows through …
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Benthic habitats in a tide-swept channel of the Pentland Firth and their potential responses to a tidal energy development
This thesis investigates sublittoral epibenthic assemblages, the ecological processes associated with distributions of benthic assemblages and potential ecological impacts arising from the de- ployment of tidal energy devices (TEDs) at a key tidal energy development site. An extensive field …
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Assessing Dynamic Seabed Change on the Scottish Continental Shelf
… followed the sediment transport pathways at the Pentland Firth reflecting complex residual flow dynamics. However, the residual flow was found to vary when forced by time-varying non-tidal hydrodynamic drivers (e.g., wind). Increasing the magnitude of non-tidal hydrodynamic forcing resulted in …
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Seabird use of tidal stream environments and potential interactions with tidal energy devices
… colonies within a major tidal energy site, the Pentland Firth, Scotland, were analysed. Year-round camera trap monitoring and diet sampling to provide longterm understanding of impacts at another commercially operational site, Bluemull Sound, Scotland, were trialled.<br/>Assessing the spatial …
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Investigating the foraging ecology of black guillemots Cepphus grylle in relation to tidal stream turbines and marine protected areas
… tidal lease area within the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth. I found 9.5% of foraging locations overlapped with the lease area. Individuals mostly foraged parallel to the MeyGen area, associating with slower velocities and shallower depths than those occurring within the lease area. Tidal …