Independent Scientific Adviser for Scotland
The up-the-slope downstream face tensioned reinforcing cables hold the cantilever dam up when the reservoir is empty or less than full. I haven’t drawn in the upstream face tensioning cables so that I could mention that they are not needed for hydrostatic forces – but would of course be necessary to resist transient tensions created … Continue reading 45° Cantilever Gravity Dam
Ming Yang announces major investment plan to supercharge the UK’s path to clean energy and lower bills Date: 2025.10.10 ● Ming Yang Smart Energy plans to invest up to £1.5 billion in Scotland and create 1500 new jobs ● Plans will create Britain’s first integrated offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility and bring key parts of … Continue reading China’s Big Wind is welcome to Scotland
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Great British Energy permanent CEO appointed Dan McGrail is just the very 🐩 to short-change Great British Energy, siphoning money off for the nuclear power rip-off, the deadly carbon capture & storage scam and anything else which takes Rachel-from-accounts fancy, delaying the energy transition and harming the national interest. Dan will also be relied upon … Continue reading The poodle running…
“The reservoirs can be filled gradually over a decade to support slowly growing deployment of solar and wind.” – Andrew Blakers How pumped hydro could cover for “wet and windless” weeks in the West – tentatively suggesting a gradual rainfall solution to the anticipated water-supply problem with proposals to use fresh water pumped hydro in … Continue reading Pumped Hydro for Western Australia
“Aberdeen-based ZOEX Ltd, the UK’s only female-founded wave energy company, has secured £531,000 in funding to support the next stage of its clean technology development.” – Water Power There is a very good scientific reason why every other wave energy scheme in history has been a commercial flop – with the sole exception of the … Continue reading Wave energy is a scam
Lochan Fada & Loch Maree in Wester Ross in the north-west of the Scottish Highlands are ideal for building a pumped storage hydro scheme. From the Global Pumped Hydro Atlas “Bluefield” “protected area” database, ranked AA, excellent, for duration 50 hours @ 3GW but I reckon this is just as excellent for 30 hours @ … Continue reading Fada Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 150GWh 5GW 30h AA
National Energy System Operator (NESO): Our Clean Power 2030 advice to Government “The connections queue is currently oversubscribed.” (Page 23) “Delivery relies on reforms to the connections queue, planning issues being resolved and market structures providing the right revenue opportunities. These challenges were also raised by many stakeholders.” the recently nationalised NESO told their boss…
The Global Pumped Hydro Atlas (Bluefield) found this upper reservoir to pair with Loch Ness as the lower reservoir, rated AA, excellent, for storage of 500 GWh, duration of 50 hours and power capacity of 10 GW. Dams The Eskin’s upper reservoir dams crest at 732 metres. There are 3 dams, from tallest to smallest … Continue reading Eskin Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 500GWh 10GW 50h AA
Gilkes Energy have made a planning application for the Earba Storage Project claiming it “is a proposed pumped storage hydro (‘PSH’) scheme with an installed capacity of up to 1,800MW and stored energy of up to 40,000 MWh”. 🙄 I regret to inform Gilkes Energy that the Global Pumped Hydro Atlas (Greenfield) begs to differ … Continue reading Earba Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme cannot store “40,000…