campbell wrote:I heard that if we dammed and flooded every loch & Glen in Scotland, we still couldn't generate enough hydro to provide base load.
Cruachan, (the hollow mountain - well worth a visit) uses off peak electric to pump water up hill and then when demand is high releases it again to make electricity. It's a very good "battery" and was built (I think) to compliment Hunterston*. You'd need an awful lot of Cruachans to power the whole of Scotland though...
I didn't know how much of our power was nuclear until I started reading around this thread. Torness and Hunterston provide 40% of our power!! Who knew?
And for the SNP haters, Osborne** ditched carbon capture (which left Scottish plans high and dry). energy policy is reserved (ie not devolved)***. Power production is a long term problem and Sturgeon has not been in power long, successive governments have been firmly ignoring this problem too.
Finally it's privatiased! Are all you right wingers now crying out for nationalisation? Why not stick to your principles and let the market decide?****
Pete (Feel I should sign this as I've so many footnotes)
*"Hiya Hunterston it's Cruachan, I love what you're doing with that Uranium."
Compliment. See what i did there? I don't know why I bother, i don't think anyone reads this far.
**Osborne isn't in the SNP. Y'all knew that, right?
***Which is true but I suspect it's more complicated than that.
****Although it kind of has. Wait until all the lights go out then make us pay through the nose. Then blame the left wingers for failing to make and enact plans 20 years ago when they weren't in power.
'99 - '03 Titanium S1 111S.
'03 - '10 Starlight Black S2 111S
'11 - '17 S2 135R
'17 - '19 S2 Exige S+
'23 - ?? Evora