Pipeline Jura?

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Pipeline Jura?

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I noticed this last week in sound of Islay. Is someone laying a pipe across Jura? Why?

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it`ll be for the cratur i expect :D
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I wonder if it is anything to do with the grid connection for the Islay tidal array?
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Nick wrote:.
I wonder if it is anything to do with the grid connection for the Islay tidal array?
would that not be a wire rather than a pipe :?: :)
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little boy blue wrote:
Nick wrote:.
I wonder if it is anything to do with the grid connection for the Islay tidal array?
would that not be a wire rather than a pipe :?: :)
Could be a wire in a pipe . . .
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A wire could be such a diameter, but would be expected to carry a very large amount of power.

Maybe this is that Stirling group's answer to undergrounding the Beauly to Denny line? Take it the long way round?
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