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Definitely interesting. They'd have to have a non-electric standby boat if the electricity goes off for the many reasons it does - to carry the electricians out to some of the more remote islands...

 

With the batteries being so hefty, is there an increased risk of fire? But I guess the risk would probably outweigh the benefits of less pollution.

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> is there an increased risk of fire?

 

Some types of batteries are more risky to use than others.

I hear Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO 4) batteries are one of the safer ones, as such I'm looking to install them in my own trike to upgrade the current Sealed Lead Acid batteries.

 

The bit that caught my attention was:

> reduce energy costs by 60% or more

Now if the ferry company also owned some electricity producing infrastructure, there wouldn't be any fuel costs. :-)



> to carry the electricians

I hear there is a shortage of such trained people up here.
(When I first arrived, someone asked me if I was one, as they was going to have to wait a week for someone to come up to the island to fix things..)

Not something I hear is going to be helped if they close the Lerwick power station..
 

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There is a chance of a tunnel or bridge running from Bluemull to Fetlar and there is a little info regarding it in Shetland Inter Island Transport Study. Would be much more effective for getting back and forward to Fetlar - and all the other islands. When it will take place, though, as so many claim that the wee ferries are awfy important.

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How long would a Fetlar tunnel have to be ?

Maybe what we need is a local social enterprise tunneling company and we could build our own tunnels at cost price..

A bit of crowd funding, perhaps we wouldn't need to wait for the council to do anything.

Didn't all the elected council folk each say they was pro-tunnel before getting elected...

I wonder what any of them have done about the issue as I've not heard a thing !

 

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None of the wind turbines here have made any reduction to the amount of heavy oil burned in the power stations, not convinced by electric ferries either , get tunnels sorted asap !

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Bridges in Shetland with the high winds here ye right

And Tunnels are all fine and well if the rock structure is correct 

There are many who do not want tunnels as the outer island which they live on would then get built up and ruined by greedy money makers building houses ,flats etc to rent out so spoiling the landscape, peace and wildlife which people on those outer islands love and why they moved there in the first place.

 

The wind turbines have made little impact on the amount of oil burned in the power stations because they are inefficient and this country just went along with them to comply with EU law of cutting down emissions but in comparison to wave generation they are a waste of time.

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There are many who do not want tunnels as the outer island which they live on would then get built up and ruined by greedy money makers building houses ,flats etc to rent out so spoiling the landscape, peace and wildlife which people on those outer islands love and why they moved there in the first place.

 

There are many that do want tunnels and bridges. They need them to access their employers, otherwise they can't get to work. They also need them to access NHS Scotland. People need rapid access to medics for surgery and care.

 

The wind turbines have made little impact on the amount of oil burned in the power stations because they are inefficient and this country just went along with them to comply with EU law of cutting down emissions but in comparison to wave generation they are a waste of time.

 

Wind turbines have made little impact on the amount of oil burned in power stations. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, they insist on using power stations that are no longer required in the way that they were before. Secondly, wind turbines don't burn oil in any way at all but power stations continue to, regardless.

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George the whole idea of a wind turbine is to use less fossil fuels, with all the turbines erected in Shetland have they made any reduction in the amount of fuel burned , the answer is NO therefore they have been a complete waste of time to date and subsidized by everyone paying their electric bill.

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George the whole idea of a wind turbine is to use less fossil fuels, with all the turbines erected in Shetland have they made any reduction in the amount of fuel burned , the answer is NO therefore they have been a complete waste of time to date and subsidized by everyone paying their electric bill.

 

Have they finished putting up all the turbines, PJS?

 

 

Well actually, SSE claim to be using 10% less diesel fuel now than they did previously. http://news.ssen.co.uk/news/all-articles/2017/06/northern-isles-new-energy-solutions-project/

 

What is in any way relevant to the claims that SSE chooses to come out with, Ian? Is there any proof that they exist in any way at all?

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