Letters / The right direction
This is a letter that I had wanted to write for a long time. When I saw your article on the Unst Pure project latest (I’m ex RAF and have been to Saxa Vord three times) I finally got stimulated enough to do it!!
Electricity. This has been argued about for years; especially now with the Viking project.
Surely the problem with and cost of the interconnector could be bypassed, at least partly, by using electricity generated to produce hydrogen and oxygen on a commercial scale, and by liquefying and then shipping it to market.
This process makes energy storage possible, and would open up enormous market potential.
Shetland has the water and the wind, what it needs is to attract entrepreneurial thinking, expertise, and ability.
Unst is going in the right direction, but it will need scaling up. Part of the battle is to concentrate the thinking.
In not too many years, hydrogen will be the future.
Rod Tyrrell
Bridge of Don
Aberdeen
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