Should we be worried about wind farms?

[rjp]

Once wind becomes established as a valuable resource for electricity generation, using it for sailing, land yachting or other leisure purposes will either become a criminal offence or will be charged for!

John

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[mirabriani]

Oh! What about breathing?
Wasn't there a book called Gasping? Yes that little chap with glasses, talks quick.
Quick someone tell me his name.
Briani

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[MainlySteam]

Re: Bloody things

It always surprises me that the greenies think antenna towers are an eyesore but windfarms are beautiful (unless in their own backyard then they want them in someone elses backyard).

John

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[Colin_S]

Ben Elton

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[fellinagen]

I think you guys must be confused.

Pig farm = more pigs, Chicken farm=more chickens. Therefore, Wind farm = more wind......thus ensuring ample supply of moving air for sailor types. Our future is assured.

My only concern is the wind equivalent of Foot and Mouth, in which case Mr Blur would order the immediate and total cull of all wind. V Bad!!! And, where would all the carcasses go!

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[penfold]

Re: Bloody things

Indeed, the bottom line is that wind turbines are a pants way of generating electricity; the supply fluctuates abruptly and unpredictably and the power density is crap so you have to cover the whole of the UK with windmills to make a dent in CO2 output. If the political weenies actually wanted to be serious about this we would be harnessing the tide, either barrages (the severn estuary enjoys pretty much the largest tide range in europe) or submarine turbines at tidal gates like Portland, Selsey, Lizard, Land's End, Corryvreckan, Dorus Mor, Mull of Kintyre(in fact pretty much anywhere in the North Channel), Cuan Sound, Sound of Luing, The Grey Dugs, The Falls of Lora, Kyle Rhea, Kyleakin, Pentland Firth, and I'll stop now 'cos yer probably bored, but there are numerous others. The downsides being long leadtimes(the Canadians looked at tidal barriers in a few places like the Bay of Fundy, and they reckoned it would take 20years to build) and the need for brobdingnagian quantities of cash.

cheers,
David

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[brianhumber]

Our esteemed leaders?? (the pratt Prescott etc) should bear in mind a couple of points
Windfarms are no good in no wind ( Denmarks output varies from 12-50% as a rule depending on the day) so other forms of electricity still need to be installed
We are at present finding more oil than we are using. ( 40+ years as of now)
Now justify the logic in plastering the hills and sandbanks with more windfarms to me

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[jimi]

Without wishing to be cynical, our esteemed leaders know that nuclear fuel is the only way forward .. but politically thet feel they have to give "green energy" a chance .. to prove it is'nt viable !

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[pugwash]

And bloody pylons

Understand that on average wind turbines in the UK last year operated 24 percent of the time. Conventional power stations have to be kept on standby (spinning reserve) thereby adding to pollution rather than reducing it.

The Greens have just woken up to the fact that miles and miles of bloody pylons have to be built to connect wind power to people. Jaws are dropping.

It's obvious from Blair's tentative dipping of his nuclear toe in the water a few weeks ago that this is just the beginning of a process to soften us up for nuclear energy and good thing too.

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