Wick (Mackays Hotel recommendations)
There are two castles...Castle Sinclair and Wick Castle and some incredible beaches. You could take a round in at Wick Golf Club, learn about our famous local Single Malt Old Pulteney Whisky. You can also learn more about the history of this part of the world at Wick Heritage Museum and the impressive Nucleus: The Nuclear and Caithness Archive.
NUCLEAR REACTOR - COLOUR
The latest addition to Britain's energy resources is the new Fast Breeder Reactor at Dounreay, Caithness.
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Building PFR.wmv
In 1967, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began building a third nuclear reactor on their site at Dounreay in the Scottish Highlands. They commissioned a film of the construction of the Prototype Fast Reactor, or PFR. Narrated by Gordon Jackson, the film is a fascinating piece of history.
Dounreay D1251 demolition
Decommissioning a nuclear reactor is about more than removing the core itself and, around a decade after work started to pull apart a host of support facilities associated with Dounreay’s oldest reactor, they have all gone. Radioactive facilities, including a cooling pond, storage compound and examination cells assisted Dounreay Materials Test Reactor (DMTR) during its operational life. All have now been safely and painstakingly stripped out, culminating in the support building itself being removed from the landscape.
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Gone in 90 Seconds.flv
Video showing the future decommissioning of Dounreay from 2008 until site closure in 2032
The Thurso Gala Week parade, 1953
A pipe band leads the procession of floats through the streets of Thurso in the Gala Day parade of 1953. The clip is from The Scottish Screen Archive collection. For more information about this film including details of how to obtain a copy please follow this link
The Scottish Screen Archive holds thousands of films and videos from Scotland's 20th-century history. The archive contains everything from home movies and advertisements to educational films and documentaries. There are films detailing technical processes and others showing the imagination and innovation of Scottish film-makers over the years.
Our little film archive
I discovered various old 8mm film reels from the 1970s and early 80s at my mother's house at Xmas time
D1207 crane removal
Dounreay's decontamination and waste handling facility, code named D1207, was built to serve the site's chemical plants. The electrical overhead travelling gantry crane was used to move items of equipment within the building. Now the building is redundant and being cleaned up before its eventual demolition. The crane removal was the end of a year's work by a team of workers from site licence company DSRL and its decommissioning sub-contractors.
Thurso Scotland. Old Footage 1950.
History of WWII Edinburgh Blitz
Historian Daniel Grey explores the tragic history of the bombs that hit Edinburgh in 1940. Live at Five - January 12th, 2016.
Renewable energy in Scotland | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:23 1 Realisation of the potential
00:08:14 2 Hydro-electric power
00:11:01 3 Wind power
00:14:05 4 Wave power
00:18:22 5 Tidal power
00:22:56 6 Biofuels
00:23:06 6.1 Biodiesel
00:25:11 6.2 Biogas, anaerobic digestion and landfill gas
00:26:44 6.3 Solid biomass
00:29:21 7 Micro systems
00:31:13 7.1 Solar energy
00:32:59 7.2 Geothermal energy
00:34:32 8 Other means of reducing carbon emissions
00:35:17 8.1 Other renewable options
00:35:44 8.2 Carbon offsetting
00:37:06 8.3 Challenges and opportunities offered by non-renewables
00:39:55 8.4 Hydrogen
00:42:16 9 Local vs national concerns
00:46:38 10 Promotion of renewables
00:48:31 11 Recent events
00:53:07 12 Summary of Scotland's resource potential
00:53:20 13 See also
00:53:39 14 Main references
00:53:48 15 Notes and references
00:53:58 16 External links
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SUMMARY
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The production of renewable energy in Scotland is an issue that has come to the fore in technical, economic, and political terms during the opening years of the 21st century. The natural resource base for renewable energy is extraordinary by European, and even global standards, with the most important potential sources being wind, wave, and tide.
In 2015, Scotland generated 59% of its electricity consumption through renewable sources, exceeding the country's lofty goal of 50% renewable energy by 2015. Moving forward, the Scottish Government's energy plan calls for 100% of electricity consumption to be generated through renewable sources by 2020, and 50% of total energy consumption (including transportation) by 2030.At the start of 2016, Scotland had 8,055 megawatts (MW) of installed renewable electricity capacity. Renewable electricity generation in Scotland was 21,983 GWh in 2015, up 15.2% on 2014. Scottish renewable generation makes up approximately 26.4% of total UK renewable generation (down from 32% in 2014). In 2014, Scotland exported over 24 per cent of generation.Continuing improvements in engineering and economics are enabling more of the renewable resources to be utilised. Fears regarding peak oil and climate change have driven the subject high up the political agenda and are also encouraging the use of various biofuels. Although the finances of many projects remain either speculative or dependent on market incentives, it is probable that there has been a significant, and in all likelihood long-term change, in the underpinning economics.In addition to planned increases in large-scale generating capacity and microsystems using renewable sources, various related schemes to reduce carbon emissions are being researched. Although there is significant support from the public, private and community-led sectors, concerns about the effect of the technologies on the natural environment have been expressed. There is also an emerging political debate about the relationship between the siting, and the ownership and control of these widely distributed resources.