Talk:Rance Tidal Power Station

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The quoted costs are not attributed to any source nor dated. They are almost certainly wrong and certainly misleading. In particular the ongoing production costs, like most renewable sources after recovery of initial costs, are extremely low. Comparison with other sources of electricity should probably not be made without quoting a detailed analysis or at least explaining the basis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.211.11.136 (talk) 18:10, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Second on the quoted costs being ridiculous. Without a basis year it's difficult to say just how off the cost is; it appears that the conversion from the Franc to the Euro was done using the conversion rate used in 2001. 620M Francs in 1967 dollars is approximately 744M Euros in 2011 dollars as per http://www.insee.fr/en/indicateurs/indic_cons/guide-lecture-tableaux-2012-english.pdf -206.16.109.32 (talk) 16:28, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Power production as per Fr wiki article - I am not convinced this is accurate - 600 Million KWH per what period of time??? Please help/ never mind - fixed with data from UK study.Bridesmill 01:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * There is useful information at https://tethys.pnnl.gov/project-sites/la-rance-tidal-barrage. Deipnosophista (talk) 07:32, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Explaining trans

 * Follow-on - nothing was ever accomplished the first time, but the second time used experience of the first, so 'follow-on'. 'Follow-up' has conmnotation of either expanding on previous work or remedial work (as in 'a follow-up visit to the doctor's')

Bridesmill 12:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * metres/meters - both spellings acceptable on wiki, but it needs to be consistent within the article, and normal policy is the first version stands, otherwise it turns into revert wars on UK/US spelling (see Jewelry for a prime example of this)


 * I Google-mapped Bretagne, France referenced in the first line of the article. That location is about as far away as you can get in France from the actual location of this hydro facillity.


 * Did you try using the co-ords at the top of the article? Googling on the name of an administrative district will rarely happen to find a specific location within that district unless the district is very small and the location happens to be very central within the district. Googling the vatican might find St Peter's Square, but googling Bretagne isn't likely to hit a specific river mouth. DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 21:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Tourist attraction and a bridge
Is the "16,000" vessels the number of vessels that pass through the lock, in which case over which time period, or the vessel capacity of the lock, in what unit? Tonnes? DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 08:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * This has now been improved.