Excellent Article guaranteed to raise the hackles! Another area where UK Gov't indifference has slowed the rate of development is tidal energy. When the UK Gov issues info on renewable energy it rarely mention tidal generation. This lack of any serious interest is unfathomable: the only guaranteed 24/7/365 source and yet UK Gov's withdrawal of investment in tidal set its development back by decades and caused the Scottish Gov to work with the EU and contractors to develop tidal engineering. While fixed sub-sea turbines are being installed in the Pentland Firth, the pace of their production & installation has been slowed by lack of UK investment.
Meanwhile the fruits of floating, anchorable turbine vessels (which are ideally suited to the sea lochs of the west of Scotland) are being enjoyed and developed in Canada: The original craft, after tests in the Pentland Firth, went to the Bay of Fundy for stress testing in the world's greatest tidal race and has remained there to this day, where its output is fed into the Nova Scotia grid. Further development of the concept is more likely to be done there as it's a proven working concept. Westminster's lack of imagination/interest works to Scotland's detriment yet again!
This is excellent work Leah. The UK media have kept the Scottish people in the dark for so long about their own assets, while peddling the idea that poor wee Scotland was getting subsidised by the generousity of a series of UK Governments.
This propaganda is directed at the "project fear" concept and is designed to mislead and confuse the Scottish people. The best antidote to project fear is education and the spreading of economic facts, because the more people in Scotland understand about our economy and our economic history the less able to cause problems will project fear become.
Excellent Article guaranteed to raise the hackles! Another area where UK Gov't indifference has slowed the rate of development is tidal energy. When the UK Gov issues info on renewable energy it rarely mention tidal generation. This lack of any serious interest is unfathomable: the only guaranteed 24/7/365 source and yet UK Gov's withdrawal of investment in tidal set its development back by decades and caused the Scottish Gov to work with the EU and contractors to develop tidal engineering. While fixed sub-sea turbines are being installed in the Pentland Firth, the pace of their production & installation has been slowed by lack of UK investment.
Meanwhile the fruits of floating, anchorable turbine vessels (which are ideally suited to the sea lochs of the west of Scotland) are being enjoyed and developed in Canada: The original craft, after tests in the Pentland Firth, went to the Bay of Fundy for stress testing in the world's greatest tidal race and has remained there to this day, where its output is fed into the Nova Scotia grid. Further development of the concept is more likely to be done there as it's a proven working concept. Westminster's lack of imagination/interest works to Scotland's detriment yet again!
Thanks Leah - the scale of these barefaced robberies / wrongdoings just makes me mad...
This is excellent work Leah. The UK media have kept the Scottish people in the dark for so long about their own assets, while peddling the idea that poor wee Scotland was getting subsidised by the generousity of a series of UK Governments.
This propaganda is directed at the "project fear" concept and is designed to mislead and confuse the Scottish people. The best antidote to project fear is education and the spreading of economic facts, because the more people in Scotland understand about our economy and our economic history the less able to cause problems will project fear become.