Hydro Boys, The: Pioneers of Renewable Energy

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This work is an account of the pioneering days of hydro-electricity in Scotland. It shows how each hydro project brought its own set of technical challenges, underlining the remarkable engineering achievements involved in bringing hydro-electric power to the wild glens of the Scottish Highlands. It concludes by looking at the future of hydro-electric power worldwide. Is hydro-electric power the sustainable technology of choice in a new century already riven with ecological angst.

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Title	Hydro Boys, The: Pioneers of Renewable Energy
Author	Emma Wood
Binding	Paperback
ISBN-13	9781842820476
No. of Pages	214
Series	N/A
Edition	N/A
Author Bio	Emma Wood was born in Yorkshire, and after spells in East Anglia and Norfolk, she moved to Ross-shire in 1987. She is the author of Notes from the North, explaining her experiences as an Englishwoman living in North Scotland. Emma teaches English and is a freelance journalist.
Back Cover Copy	The hydro-electric project was a crusade, with a marvellous goal: the prize of affordable power for all from Scottish rainfall. This book is a journey through time and across and beneath the Highland landscape...it is not just a story of technology and politics but of people. I heard about drowned farms and hamlets, the ruination of the salmon-fishing and how Inverness might be washed away if the dams failed inland. I was told about the huge veins of crystal they found when they were tunnelling deep under the mountains and when I wanted to know who 'they' were: what stories I got in reply! I heard about Poles, Czechs, poverty-stricken Irish, German spies, intrepid locals and the heavy drinking, fighting and gambling which went on in the NoSHEB contracters' camps. - EMMA WOOD 'Nobody should forget the human sacrifice made by those who built the dams all those years ago. The politicians, engineers and navvies of the era bequeathed to us the major source of renewable energy down to the present day. Their legacy will continue to serve us far into the 21st century.' - BRIAN WILSON MP, Energy Minister, announcing a 'new deal for hydro' which now ""provides 50 per cent of the UK's renewable energy output. The largest generator serves more than 4 million customers.' - THE SCOTSMAN
Reviews	'Mixing human interest, political details and some of the more technical aspects...the book charts the factual development while telling the personal story...' The Press and Journal
Table of Contents	N/A
BISAC Subject	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Alternative & Renewable
BIC Subject	Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology

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