Tree power

Calton presumes that the article about wiring children up to harness the power of their movements on Business Scotland on Sunday was an April Fool, however someone should take the idea of wiring trees up for the same purpose seriously. After all, if we could use the movement of trees in the wind to produce electricity we would not have to build lots of windfarms - we could just use the existing forests in Scotland. Alternatively, if someone could figure out a way of collecting and utilising the hot air which will be generated in the run-up to the council elections next month we could probably power Scotland for the next 10 years on it. And it is renewable!