Tidal turbines could power nearly half of Scotland

Tidal turbines stretched across Pentland Firth off Orkney could generate the equivalent to almost half of Scotland’s electricity needs, a new study has revealed. • Oxford University researchers have claimed that tidal turbines installed across Pentland Firth could generate equivalent of almost half of Scotland’s electricity • Report says that Read more…

It’s a new ballgame: wind turbines are ecological traps

  Pictures proving that raptors are attracted to windfarms http://savetheeagles.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/raptors-attracted-to-windfarms-2/ Study showing that bats are attracted by wind turbines as far as 14 km away (offshore on top of that!). And new, short paper mentioning all this and suggesting that swifts and swallows could also be attracted to windfarms. http://wcfn.org/2013/07/01/tip-of-the-iceberg/ Read more…