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Comment
There have been a number of sightings of ‘Nessie’ recently, ahead of the summer season for Loch Ness and the Cairngorms – although I am not saying they are connected. The videos, as always, are from far away, a bit shaky, and show nothing distinct. The drama was nearly spoiled by a blue whaleposing for trippers in the Firth of Forth.
Scotland is over-endowed with a wealth of natural features that can be used to generate electricity, except, perhaps, solar farms, even though I used to camp on the Outer Hebrides in bright sunlight in September. Its ambitions in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs to attain Net Zero status is both admirable with the Trossachs National Park Authority aiming to reach its Mission net zero target prior to Scotlands national target in 2045, using wind, solar,battery, kinetic, hydro, air, and ground source heat pumps.
Whether we have a couple of Munros in our own backyard, or not, the experiences and expertise they will be passing on will be of great use to the rest of the country. The news also contains another couple of noteworthy environmental announcements, one of which is the availability of One-Click Lifecycle Assessment with Bentley’s solutions for assessing the embodied carbon in every form of construction project, and BlueSky International’s use of mapping for the optimum siting of solar farms.
The rising costs of energy production will drive the search for alternative energy sources. If we can balance that with the derived climate benefits of the latter, so much the better.
David Chadwick
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