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The Greek Island Where Renewable Energy and Hybrid Cars Rule
Islands, which usually lack fossil fuel resources, have become places for experimentation with new energy sources. Tilos is now the first island in southern Europe to build a hybrid power station with battery storage.
By Kerin Hope
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Athens Tasos Dimalexis and his colleagues from the Hellenic Ornithological Society had spent days scouring the rocky promontory on the remote Greek island of Tilos.
They were seeking a suitable site for a 55-meter high wind turbine one that would be least likely to disturb several pairs of rare Bonelli’s eagles that nest there every spring.
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Tasos Dimalexis and his colleagues from the Hellenic Ornithological Society had spent days scouring the rocky promontory on the remote Greek island of Tilos.
They were seeking a suitable site for a 55 metre high wind turbine one that would be least likely to disturb several pairs of rare Bonelli’s eagles that nest there every spring.
“We did a lot of scrambling on the cliffs to find a place for the platform,” he says. “But it worked out . . . The birds are still coming back!”