The Hollow Mountain

Well day two and it was a trip for us inside the mountain that holds Cruachan power station inside Ben Cruachan on a tour of the power plant this shot is of the tunnel that takes you down to the main generating station this tunnel is 1100m long and 6.7m wide the power station is a 440MW reversable pump-storage power station that could power the whole city of Edinburgh and is situated next to Loch Awe because it is a reversable station it can suck water back out of Loch Awe back up through the turbines and then up the 55 degree incline back into the Cruachan Dam and stretches some 304.8m up to the dam which is around 1200ft above us from where we are in the tunnel or there abouts and there is to much technical data to write down but suffice to say it is an amazing piece of construction work hewed out through solid Black Granite that doesn't need shoring up as it's solid as steel when they were building it they bored test bores put cloured dye in the bore holes and timed it to see how long it took to work its way through the mountain to where this tunnel is and it took two years for the coloured water to make its way to the tunnel so when it rains it takes two years to work it's way through the rock to here but it was very warm as well as they even grow tropical plants down there and the temp was around 65-70 so even in a polo shirt I was very warm and for £7 was well worth the trip anyway that was the excitement for the day as I still feel really down about the vote and my emotions are still raw you could say I feel like my movie for today which is "Hollow Man 2000" See Ya