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14 January 2010

Our friends electric

Wind, waves and tides – the Orkney Islands have it all, but they’ll need a little help to make a d

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Look across the dark water from Stromness in the Orkney Islands, and you see the twinkling lights of the Flotta Oil Terminal, dominating the horizon and local economy. Yet just over the next headland is a harbinger of a very different future – a wave-power generator on test.

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