Palk Strait power station: A future fixed link on Adam's Bridge?

摘要

The first commercial offshore electricity-generation station, Vindeby Offshore Wind Power Plant in Denmark, became operational during 1991. Could an aggregation of wind turbines (WTs) and vertical axis hydro turbines (VAHTs), placed in a fixed-link structure spanning Palk Strait, cost-effectively supplement the national electrical grids of India and Sri Lanka, and provide other national and international benefits as well? India-only tidal power macroproject proposals have been welt studied. However, recent event-processes cast shadows on two macroprojects: the 26 January 2001 Gujarat earthquake instigates unease regarding the projected Kutch Tidal Power Project (900 MW) and new archaeological objections arise from the discovery of important ancient artifacts in the Gulf of Cambay, where a 1800 MW-generating tidal dam has been foreseen.