What Weighs 1,300 Tonnes And Is 180 Metres Long? Pelamis The Future Of Scottish Energy

Pelamis is a Scottish built wave generator. In a few weeks it will be towed from the Firth of Forth to be moored at a testing ground off Orkney. It converts the motion of waves into enough electricity to power 500 homes. The plan is to install hundreds of these wave generators off Orkney and the Shetland Islands and the Western Isles in the next five years. By 2020 Alex Salmond claims Scotland could produce all of it's own electricity from renewable energy. And Scotland could become the "Saudi Arabia of renewable energy".

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