https://www.boland-hydroturbine.com/ A “hugely important” Welsh bible which is more than 400 years old is being protected from damage with the help of hydropower, the National Trust said. The first bible translated into Welsh has been increasingly at risk of deterioration from flooding and damp at the 16th century farmhouse Ty Mawr Wybrnant, near Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia, where it is on display. But now the Trust, which cares for the property, says it has found a sustainable solution by installing a “pico” or small scale hydroelectric turbine to use water from the nearby stream to help power the heating system to prevent damp. It means the bible is being protected by the very thing, water, that is also putting it at risk through increasingly heavy and persistent rainfall, flooding and damp, as the climate changes. The book, on display with more than 200 other bibles in different languages, is one of only 24 known copies of the fir