Use tides, not the wind – Herald

I READ with incredulity the proposal to build a pumped seawater, hydro
storage scheme on Lewis. This would involve wind farms pumping seawater
uphill to a loch for storage, for release when the wind doesn’t blow
(“Renewable storage scheme will power 200,000 homes”, The Herald, August 24).

Might I point out that our tides have been pumping vast quantities of
seawater uphill for millions of years, without the need for giant
bird-mincers. Has no-one heard of tidal power?

Every year in Spain alone – according to research by the conservation group
SEO/Birdlife – between six million and 18 million birds and bats are killed
by wind farms. They kill roughly twice as many bats as birds. When will the
wind industry tell us the full Scottish figures?

Sorry, I completely forgot – there are subsidies to be milked.

George Herraghty,
Lothlorien, Lhanbryde, Moray.