2 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 14

HYDRO-ELECTRIC AND ATOMIC POWER

SIR,-" Janus " mentions the controversy raised by the hydro-electric schemes at present projected in Scotland and specifically the threat to two of Scotland's finest rivers, the Tummel and Garvy. The Press is at the same time full of scientists' views of the future of atomic energy ; these reports seem to agree that the first beneficial use of atomic energy will be the large-scale production of cheap electricity. It looks as if the hydro- electric schemes may well be out of date before they are completed, and that Scotland is on the point of being denuded of her beauty in return for a collection of obsolete dams and power-houses.—Yours faithfully,