Posted by Dale Houghton on 1/16/2003, 12:57 pm, in reply to "Shieldaig hydro scheme"
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Whilst I am not familiar with the scheme I would like to raise a few points with regards your comments.
I would rather have a hydro electric system which does not use up fossil fuels than a great big smoking powerplant. Perhaps you would prefer they use the river to cool some plutonium rods down, then flow back over the muscles - benefit, the muscles could be eaten from the riveralready cooked!
Scotland is a country full of naturaly beautiful areas.
Hydro electric schemes can add to an areas natural beauty, weirs are picturesque and provide pools for leisure activities!
Freshwater muscles provide little if any benefit to the world - there are plenty of saltwater muscles anyway.
Black Throated Divers are amazingly resilient birds who can relocate their homes quite simply. A rise in water would not signal the end of their existance.
We cant win in the power industry, we dig coal, you complain, we burn oil, you complain, we put up windmills, you complain, we build dam's, you complain, we have vast solar power fields (states) you complain, nuclear power, you complain. Perhaps you would be happy with oil lamps, oh wait, that involves killing whales, you complain, candles, child fire hazzard, wood, dont even go there!
How exaclty would you like the computer your writing to obtain its power?
We should encourage hydro electric schemes - they create little pollution and use up a renewing resource.
They say money doesnt grow on trees, in scotland it falls from the sky!
I hope you dont take this moral position in your coursework, you will fail the course.
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