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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #294 A View of the Future from Coire Glas
Description: On Coire Glas, in the remote Scottish Highlands, geologists and engineers are developing a vision of Scotland’s energy future. SSE Renewables plans the first pumped hydro storage facility in the UK for decades here, taking advantage of the unique and awe inspiring landscape. But first, they need to understand conditions on and in the ground. And to do that, they needed to trek to the mountaintop, bringing in all the tools they needed by hand or by helicopter.
Coire Glas is the largest hydro storage project in UK history and would be the first one to be...