Hopefully Another Nail In The Coffin Of Wind Farms,

but I doubt many will listen,

as there is way too much money to be made out of them, Government subsidy's for wind farms are given on the basis that each turbine will last for 25 years, but here is the rub, a study of almost 3,000 turbines, the largest of its kind in Britain, have found they start to wear out after just 12 years,

Professor Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University and former energy adviser to the World Bank, predicts in the coming decade far more investment will be needed to replace older and ineffective turbines – which is likely to be passed on in higher household electricity bills,

Prof Hughes’ study of 280 wind farms in Britain and more than 800 in Denmark from 2000 to 2011 found some remarkable results, such as fore instance that offshore wind, examined only in Denmark where it has been used for longer, the out put of electricity declined from over 40 per cent at the start, to just 15 per cent after ten years, not so bad for onshore production, it only dropped from a high of 24 per cent in the first year after construction, to just 11 per cent after 15 years,

but still a cost that will be born by UK energy users who already pay about £1 billion a year in a consumer subsidy that is added to electricity bills, nice one greenies and tree huggers, I have to say from their very beginnings I have been apposed to wind farms as many regular readers will know from other posts on our blog, but then I do not get a government subside from owning one!