Scottish Scientist
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Independent Scientific Adviser for Scotland
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STOP Swinney before he gasses Scots like pigs
Scotland is now paying £2 million for First Minister Swinney’s batshit crazy plan to pipe poisonous concentrated carbon dioxide gas through eastern Scotland! When this CO₂ pipeline leaks, Sco…
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December 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The UK botched the phase out of nuclear in Scotland - didn't build pumped hydro, demolished Longannet-biomass for backup power, peddled the deadly CCS-scam.
The clueless SNP still take bad advice from those UK poodles who misled the Tories.
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The clueless SNP still take bad advice from those UK poodles who misled the Tories.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The UK botched the phase out of nuclear in Scotland - didn't build pumped hydro, demolished Longannet-biomass for backup power, peddled the deadly CCS-scam.
The clueless SNP still take bad advice from those UK poodles who misled the Tories.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2021/12/12/a...
The clueless SNP still take bad advice from those UK poodles who misled the Tories.
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Onslow PHS was unworkable.
Wind better for offsetting in winter.
North Island doesn't have enough hydro to meet peak demand so grid storage required there.
Read this for full details on 100% renewable energy for NZ.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
Wind better for offsetting in winter.
North Island doesn't have enough hydro to meet peak demand so grid storage required there.
Read this for full details on 100% renewable energy for NZ.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
New Zealand’s Battery Project: Onslow pumped hydro is too big, too expensive and too stupid
Dry years problem solved, more wind power, North Island pumped hydro – New Zealand 100% renewables without Onslow New Zealand exports hydroelectric power from the South Island to the North Is…
scottishscientist.wordpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Onslow PHS was unworkable.
Wind better for offsetting in winter.
North Island doesn't have enough hydro to meet peak demand so grid storage required there.
Read this for full details on 100% renewable energy for NZ.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
Wind better for offsetting in winter.
North Island doesn't have enough hydro to meet peak demand so grid storage required there.
Read this for full details on 100% renewable energy for NZ.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
Bardsley's🤡Onslowsaurus🦕🆚pumped hydro for NZ🥝
ISLAND South🦕🆚North🥝
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh🥝
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week🥝
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW🥝
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?🥝
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZenergy
ISLAND South🦕🆚North🥝
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh🥝
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week🥝
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW🥝
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?🥝
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#NZpol #NZenergy
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Bardsley's🤡Onslowsaurus🦕🆚pumped hydro for NZ🥝
ISLAND South🦕🆚North🥝
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh🥝
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week🥝
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW🥝
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?🥝
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZenergy
ISLAND South🦕🆚North🥝
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh🥝
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week🥝
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW🥝
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?🥝
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#NZpol #NZenergy
New Zealand has more than enough renewable energy for a low cost solution.
The choice away from RE100 was made in 2011 when NZ stopped building wind farms, bucking the global trend.
Ardern resumed building but far too slowly to meet her 2030 target.
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The choice away from RE100 was made in 2011 when NZ stopped building wind farms, bucking the global trend.
Ardern resumed building but far too slowly to meet her 2030 target.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New Zealand has more than enough renewable energy for a low cost solution.
The choice away from RE100 was made in 2011 when NZ stopped building wind farms, bucking the global trend.
Ardern resumed building but far too slowly to meet her 2030 target.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
The choice away from RE100 was made in 2011 when NZ stopped building wind farms, bucking the global trend.
Ardern resumed building but far too slowly to meet her 2030 target.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
Not to mention embezzlers. The infeasibility of Onslow is ideal for a "The Producers" type scam.
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New Zealand’s Battery Project: Onslow pumped hydro is too big, too expensive and too stupid
Dry years problem solved, more wind power, North Island pumped hydro – New Zealand 100% renewables without Onslow New Zealand exports hydroelectric power from the South Island to the North Is…
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November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Not to mention embezzlers. The infeasibility of Onslow is ideal for a "The Producers" type scam.
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Is "Pumped Hydro Holdings" a “Producers” scam?
Is the intent to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed?
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#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
Is the intent to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed?
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#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Is "Pumped Hydro Holdings" a “Producers” scam?
Is the intent to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed?
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
Is the intent to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed?
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
The serious science is in the blog post
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but that's TLDR for you, right?
My sci-fi blames those who are not following the science in a more engaging way for non-scientists.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
but that's TLDR for you, right?
My sci-fi blames those who are not following the science in a more engaging way for non-scientists.
New Zealand’s Battery Project: Onslow pumped hydro is too big, too expensive and too stupid
Dry years problem solved, more wind power, North Island pumped hydro – New Zealand 100% renewables without Onslow New Zealand exports hydroelectric power from the South Island to the North Is…
scottishscientist.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The serious science is in the blog post
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
but that's TLDR for you, right?
My sci-fi blames those who are not following the science in a more engaging way for non-scientists.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
but that's TLDR for you, right?
My sci-fi blames those who are not following the science in a more engaging way for non-scientists.
Onslowsaurus 🦕
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
My report on the valid alternatives to Lake Onslow
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
My report on the valid alternatives to Lake Onslow
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Onslowsaurus 🦕
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
My report on the valid alternatives to Lake Onslow
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
My report on the valid alternatives to Lake Onslow
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
Pumped Hydro Holdings Ltd has to be a “Producers” scam – the intent seems to be to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
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#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Pumped Hydro Holdings Ltd has to be a “Producers” scam – the intent seems to be to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
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#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
Bardsley's folly is deader than a dinosaur called "Onslowsaurus".🦕
Realistic pumped hydro needs✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
Realistic pumped hydro needs✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bardsley's folly is deader than a dinosaur called "Onslowsaurus".🦕
Realistic pumped hydro needs✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
Realistic pumped hydro needs✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
🤡Megan Woods's ministry-groupthink Onslowsaurus 🦕
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🤡Megan Woods's ministry-groupthink Onslowsaurus 🦕
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
🤡Bardsley's Onslowsaurus 🦕🆚NZ's real pumped hydro needs.🤓
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🤡Bardsley's Onslowsaurus 🦕🆚NZ's real pumped hydro needs.🤓
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
"Pumped Hydro Holdings Limited" screams CONFLICT OF INTEREST for acting Reserve Bank chair Rodger Finlay - SACK HIM!
Private sector won't invest in Onslowsaurus.🦕
Beware underwriting with Reserve Bank cash of doomed scheme.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
Private sector won't invest in Onslowsaurus.🦕
Beware underwriting with Reserve Bank cash of doomed scheme.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
New Zealand’s Battery Project: Onslow pumped hydro is too big, too expensive and too stupid
Dry years problem solved, more wind power, North Island pumped hydro – New Zealand 100% renewables without Onslow New Zealand exports hydroelectric power from the South Island to the North Is…
scottishscientist.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Pumped Hydro Holdings Limited" screams CONFLICT OF INTEREST for acting Reserve Bank chair Rodger Finlay - SACK HIM!
Private sector won't invest in Onslowsaurus.🦕
Beware underwriting with Reserve Bank cash of doomed scheme.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
Private sector won't invest in Onslowsaurus.🦕
Beware underwriting with Reserve Bank cash of doomed scheme.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n...
#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
In my opinion, the Scottish Parliament has failed Scotland in not providing superb facilities for MSP-mothers-with-young-children like Kate Forbes, to provide every possible incentive to keep our most talented women in government and in parliament.
#KateForbes #ScottishParliament
#KateForbes #ScottishParliament
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
In my opinion, the Scottish Parliament has failed Scotland in not providing superb facilities for MSP-mothers-with-young-children like Kate Forbes, to provide every possible incentive to keep our most talented women in government and in parliament.
#KateForbes #ScottishParliament
#KateForbes #ScottishParliament
Fada Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 150GWh 5GW 30h AA
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Fada Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 150GWh 5GW 30h AA
Lochan Fada & Loch Maree in Wester Ross in the north-west of the Scottish Highlands are ideal for building a pumped storage hydro scheme. From the Global Pumped Hydro Atlas “BluefieldR…
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October 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Fada Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 150GWh 5GW 30h AA
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Some of my recommendations
ESKIN 500GWh 10GW to 13.5GW
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/e...
ESKIN 500GWh 10GW to 13.5GW
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Eskin Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 500GWh 10GW 50h AA
The Global Pumped Hydro Atlas (Bluefield) found this upper reservoir to pair with Loch Ness as the lower reservoir, rated AA, excellent, for storage of 500 GWh, duration of 50 hours and power capac…
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October 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Some of my recommendations
ESKIN 500GWh 10GW to 13.5GW
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/e...
ESKIN 500GWh 10GW to 13.5GW
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/e...
I've surveyed Scotland using those computer search tools and found some of the best prospects.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...
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Map of Pumped Hydro Schemes in Scotland
Pumped Storage Hydro Schemes – click Existing and planned greater than 10 GWh PSH schemes in Scotland. Click numbered places to see that scheme’s layout map and details of energy storag…
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October 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I've surveyed Scotland using those computer search tools and found some of the best prospects.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...
The cost-wise improvements in pumped hydro are to be found in site selection, cheaper where shorter surface or buried pipes instead of tunnels are possible.
In the past decade we have computer search tools to help site selection.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/s...
In the past decade we have computer search tools to help site selection.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/s...
Search for sites to build new pumped-storage hydroelectricity schemes
Scroll down to “Update May 2025” for news The Global pumped hydro atlas has been released by the Australian National University’s 100% Renewable Energy Group. Using computer progr…
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October 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The cost-wise improvements in pumped hydro are to be found in site selection, cheaper where shorter surface or buried pipes instead of tunnels are possible.
In the past decade we have computer search tools to help site selection.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/s...
In the past decade we have computer search tools to help site selection.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/s...
We'll need a lot more pumped hydro for energy storage.
Wales is convenient to build small scale of pumped hydro - like the UK's local convenience store.
Scotland is the supermarket for sites to build all sizes of pumped hydro.
Britain's Biggest Water Batteries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
Wales is convenient to build small scale of pumped hydro - like the UK's local convenience store.
Scotland is the supermarket for sites to build all sizes of pumped hydro.
Britain's Biggest Water Batteries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
Britain's Biggest Water Batteries
YouTube video by Scottish Scientist
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We'll need a lot more pumped hydro for energy storage.
Wales is convenient to build small scale of pumped hydro - like the UK's local convenience store.
Scotland is the supermarket for sites to build all sizes of pumped hydro.
Britain's Biggest Water Batteries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
Wales is convenient to build small scale of pumped hydro - like the UK's local convenience store.
Scotland is the supermarket for sites to build all sizes of pumped hydro.
Britain's Biggest Water Batteries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
So no problem with the science of #RE100 but there are massive problems with the governance and politics.
An obsession with the deadly carbon capture and storage scam, energy ministers who won't take good science advice, incompetent officialdom.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/s...
An obsession with the deadly carbon capture and storage scam, energy ministers who won't take good science advice, incompetent officialdom.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/s...
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
So no problem with the science of #RE100 but there are massive problems with the governance and politics.
An obsession with the deadly carbon capture and storage scam, energy ministers who won't take good science advice, incompetent officialdom.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/s...
An obsession with the deadly carbon capture and storage scam, energy ministers who won't take good science advice, incompetent officialdom.
scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/s...
Britain's biggest water batteries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
Britain's Biggest Water Batteries
YouTube video by Scottish Scientist
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Britain's biggest water batteries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72p...