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First Minister makes waves with 60ft Oyster

From the shore it looks like a piece of yellow pipe being battered by the waves, but yesterday this apparently useless flotsam began generating electricity for the national grid.

This is Oyster, the world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device, which has been developed by a company called Aquamarine Power.