The sub-sea cable would go from Lewis, cross the sea into Little Loch Broom on the west Highlands coast and land at Dundonnel, near Ullapool.

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Now all 14 of its 'berths' - areas of sea connected by cable to the shore - are booked, a sign of growing interest in this fledgling source of power.

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For the purposes of floating wind farms, such turbines are not light enough, they are too tall and the rotor blades are too small, according to Mr Bratland's early assessments, made even before the 2.3 megawatt turbine has started delivering electricity through the sea-bed cable that connects it to the Norwegian national grid.

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But unlike the last build-out, when companies buried thousands of miles of long-haul fiber-optic cable under the sea and across continents, today's construction is focused more on connecting local homes and businesses with faster Internet pipes.

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The business of laying fibre-optic cable, both terrestrially and under the sea, used to be the preserve of incumbent telecoms operators sharing the burden of capital-intensive projects.

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Part of this went towards the transformation of the Great Tower and some of it enabled improvements to the sea front as well as the planning of the cable car which will connect the front with the castle on the top of the cliff to the east of the town.

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Already it had been compared with the mustache of a sea captain, or a Brooklyn bartender, or that of a cable repairman who wasn't really there to fix the cable.

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Take a dramatic cable car ride up Mount Ulriken to find the sky:skraper restaurant, perched 643 metres above sea level.

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The cable hit in Wednesday's apparent sabotage was the South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) - one of the main cables snaking under the Mediterranean, Mena said.

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