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This is cool
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/electricity_calc/html/1.stm
If it's accurate then only 9,000 to 10,000 windmills needed to replace every power station in Britain?
Doesn't sound like that many to me if you spread them out throughout the country
I'm sure a lot of farmers wouldn't mind having a few on their land feeding back into the national grid and earning them a few extra quid ... Anyone know how windy it needs to be to have these things turning?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/electricity_calc/html/1.stm
If it's accurate then only 9,000 to 10,000 windmills needed to replace every power station in Britain?
Doesn't sound like that many to me if you spread them out throughout the country
I'm sure a lot of farmers wouldn't mind having a few on their land feeding back into the national grid and earning them a few extra quid ... Anyone know how windy it needs to be to have these things turning?
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When I was in France I saw them everywhere. I don't understan what peoples objection to them are???
Yeah.
Either way, they're not gonna be in my back yard :cool:
10,000 windmills seems like a lot to me. But of course we all have to cheer these initiatives in the name of saving the planet. Like the hybrid cars which cost more to make and cause more CO2 emissions over their lifetime than a standard petrol car...whilst every other country churns out toxic emissions like there's no tomorrow...
Wind farms are fucking expensive, though.
I'm going to be more economical :yes:
Saying that, me and the housemate pay a lot more that 600 quid a year for electricity anyway.
they are now wanting to build one two miles off the coast of llandudno but the usual objectors are there saying the sea shouldn't become an industrial landscape.
there are already gas and oil platforms out there and these will be two miles out to see and they still fucking moan.
if it gets the go ahead it will supply power for a quarter of a million homes.
considering there is only around two million people in the who;e of the country thats one fucking good power supply ...yet still they moan ...
I'd be for it!
A) they have to go sumwhere, would u rather have some windturbines or a big nuclear timebomb and legacy being burried underneath you?
C) lets protect the environment and reduce CO2 emissions
D) if they are put off the coast, you cant see them and will cause some great surf breaks,
dont complain, embrace
If local councils were getting a percentage of the money coming in from these things i'm sure they'd all be scrambling to get a piece of the action.
I saw my very first Windmill in real life a few weeks ago onthe way to Wales was a bit dangerous really having it so close to a motorway when you've never seen one before .. kinda distracting when you've never seen one. Quite pretty though...
Certainly a lot ncer looking then the chineys of a coal powered power station.
The other advantage of these is less threat of being a terriorist threat, I mean if you flew a plane into a Nuclear Power Station that's something to worry about but fly it into a Big WindMill no big deal.
Just had a power cut here btw... woke me up. Cunt.
Some really tree-hugging people don't like them because stupid birds fly through the blades and, funnily enough, get chopped. Thus, apparently, they're bad. I say that these birds clearly don't deserve to live and this is evolution's way of telling them to get bent.
They cost a fortune
They need massive amounts of concrete
Hardly anyone actually wants them near their house
- having said that, they should be used as part of the mix, but they really arent the solution by themselves.
Well, there's a bit more to consider than the birds being directly affected by the blades. Windthings not only look ugly to some people, but to some animals too and of course- they are plonked in big fields, which makes the animals move away. I think birds also change their migratory routes to avoid them as well?
I vote nuke.
I'd say no. As renewable source go, they are shit. There are better renewable sources. Wave, tide, Hydro...
Scotland has a load of Hydro plants and they work really well.
Wind is a unreliable, fucks animals off, is probably going to cause problems where they are built in the sea (Maintanence and idiots going out too close to look at htem and getting stuck. But fuck 'em, if they are that stupid.) - and on land they look cool imho, but I wouldn't want to live near one.
Nuclear is just the best option. Until Fusion is ready. And why is no-one interested in Fission anyway? Besides the danger, it could generate SO MUCH POWER.