A significant amount of Her Majesty’s seabed was leased out in the ScotWind auctions for the princely sum of around £700m. Rights to projects which may end up with as much as 25GW of capacity (about 20 typical nuclear reactors’ worth) have been acquired.This amounts to the equivalent of almost half of the GB system’s peak electricity demand in a winter day; an inconceivably … [Read more...] about A brief note on wind and hot air
Natural landscapes shaped by social injustice
The skeleton of Scotland – its bens, glens, and lochs – were shaped by the brutal cleaving of the earth by glaciers; the deformities and scars reflecting the ruthless devastation wrought by Earth’s fury. No malice in how the world was shaped, it just Was.The flesh atop those bones is an entirely artificial construct, formed over thousands of years. Mankind has long been … [Read more...] about Natural landscapes shaped by social injustice