The tide is nigh

How can the SNP be “all for Scotland” while at the same time importing wind turbines made in China? It’s a nonsense!

Wind turbines are indeed a nonsense in themselves simply because they depend upon the vagaries of the wind. For example, because of very little air movement during the weekend of 10 th and 11 th October, instead of producing about 60 per cent of the UK’S power, our turbines produced merely 9 per cent! To compensate, power had to be brought into the UK by interconnector cables from both France and Holland.

The public should be made aware that those turbines produce nil electricity when the wind speed is lower than about 5 mph and have to be shut down at wind speeds over about 50mph to prevent damage to the machinery. Alas, electricity produced by 50mph winds is no greater than if the wind speed was 25mph but there is far more wear and tea ron the machinery. Because of the above, it was clear to me in 2014 that some new method of electrical generation was required in order to produce regular and known amounts of electricity ... and from on shore locations which could be easily serviced.

I am pleased to say that earlier this year I was granted a Patent by Her Majesty’ s Patent Office for a“Tidal Energy Harvesting System” which will produce electricity in an onshore site and virtually continuously each time the tide moves in or out. Because of the known regularity of this system, the electricity produced must surely benefit the pro - duction of hydrogen, which in turn must eventually fuel all sizes of road vehicles.

ARCHIBALD A LAWRIE Church Wynd, Kingskettle, Fife