John Muir Way

I’ve done a little bit of it.

The John Muir Way

The route continues along the coastal grassland to Skateraw and around Torness Power Station…

Torness nuclear power station

Nothing like this will be built again

although it’s one of the safest and most energy-efficient civilian power reactors ever built it’s a a technological dead-end, that there won’t be any more of them, and that when it shuts down in thirty or forty years’ time this colossal collision between space age physics and victorian plumbing will be relegated to a footnote in the history books. “Energy too cheap to meter” it ain’t, but as a symbol of what we can achieve through engineering it’s hard to beat.

(I gather that these days nuclear power is very much back on the agenda.)

I’m not doing a very good job of selling the John Muir Way, perhaps.