what am I talking about? wind farms, yet another save the planet con, take the most efficient wind farm in all of the UK, High Volts 2, Country Durham, the largest and most powerful wind farm in Britain, it achieves an efficiency of just 18.7 per cent, Britain's most feeble wind farm is in Blyth Harbour in Northumberland, where the nine turbines lining the East Pier reach a meagre 7.9 per cent of their maximum capacity, another at Chelker reservoir in North Yorkshire operates at only 8.7 per cent of its potential,
why? I hear you all ask, no wind you see, we in the UK pay under the controversial 'Renewable Obligation' scheme, £1billion a year in our fuel bills to subsidise the drive towards renewable energy, but as Professor Jefferson, of London Metropolitan Business School, has said previously: 'We should be putting our money where the wind is and that is quite often not where the development pressure is.' Britain has 2,741 wind turbines spread over 262 sites, but the number is due to soar, with a further 7,000 planned for the next 12 years to meet European targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions,
many experts have accuse developers of 'grossly exaggerating' the amount of energy they will generate in order to get their hands on subsidies designed to boost the production of green power,
also as important for the tree huggers, how much carbon have we saved? none, because electricity supplied by a combination of gas, coal and nuclear can't be just turned off when the wind blows, obvious really but no one in the green industry mentions this fact, in fact we have put more carbon into the atmosphere making the turbines in the first place! whats the answer? as I have always maintained, pull down the wind farms, return our beautiful views and go nuclear, every time I read about going green it is always a con, in the case of government funded wind farms erected by private companies a very big con.
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