Bulldoze energy policy
Just when we thought the environmental damage couldn’t get any worse…
Your correspondent advocating pumped storage and claiming it is ‘renewable energy’ is quite simply wrong (Herald Letters, February 17).
Pumped ‘storage’ is by definition NOT renewable energy.
This erroneous belief demonstrates perfectly the hidden environmental and financial costs, and how utterly useless hundreds of giant, short-lived, industrial wind turbines carpeting our hills, and now seas, are at providing constant, reliable energy, as and when required.
For example, the concrete required in hydro ‘storage’ plants, for a paltry few minutes of back-up energy, is 18 times greater than a Nuclear plant, which provides constant, baseload power, day in day out, 365 days a year.
Nuclear Plants in the UK require 2,025 times less land than wind farms, sorry subsidy farms, because that’s what they really are.
Remember how dry last Summer was? Water was a very scarce commodity.
Scotland’s scenic grandeur, and the Great Glen, should be permanently protected for us and our children to inherit.
It really is the beating heart of our tourist industry, and ought not to be trashed any further by bulldozers and pylons, because of an ill-thought-out energy policy.
George Herraghty, Moray.
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