Intake 2

I thought we might have a walk to Intake 7 today then Mrs SJR said we hadn't been to Intake 2 in a while (which also takes you past Intake 1) . That was our walk.
There are 11 Intakes in total, intercepting hill burns tumbling out of the Fersit hills, the Grey Corries and what is now known as Nevis Range. The intakes decant water down deep shafts to a tunnel running 15 miles through the mountains from Loch Treig to the Fort William.smelter hydro electric power house. The vast catchment area has been in the local news in the last few days as the possible subject of a community buy out. I honestly can't fathom out how on earth this would work. There remains considerable potential for additional small hydro schemes but their viability would be based on some renewable energy enhanced feed in tariff. Despite platitudes to the contrary our current Westminster administration has got no appetite to encourage renewable energy schemes in this way.