The reasons why windmills wont work...

The Natural Philosopher · 2008-03-06T19:26:05+00:00

Up till recently I was of the opinion that thiugh i didn;t lIKE windmills, like foregoing a 6 liter V8, or taking frequent holidays in te south sea, it was probably part of the price one had to pay for the Greater Good..until certain people started shoving windmills down our throats and procalaimming them as the One True Solution to carbon free energy.So as you know, along with all the other greenwash, I decided to take a look. The initial thrust was to simply see what energy policy was feasible for a carbon neutral UK.The answer was ultimately that as far as I could see, there was only one practical option. Nuclear power and electric transport.However the windmillers started to scream and create and say that windpower could in fact do the job.And for very sceptical report there are ten glowing 'windpower is the answerer' articles on the net..so I looked deeper.The more I looked the more deeply sceptical I became.The negative issues surrounding wind power were simply not addressed by its proponents.This article contains a good summary blowing the gaff on the hidden costs associated with large scale introduction of wind power.Not to mention the rank subsidies "According to Ofgem, the Labour government's wind subsidies currently stand at £485 million a year." "Wind farms get around three times as much in subsidy - a mixture of selling ROCS [renewable obligation certificates] and a share of fines paid by non-renewable plants - as they do from selling electricity"A rather more scholarly and dry critique is here:- as far back as 20004 totally unexpected downside comes from here:- may THINK that its unlikely the Iranians or the Russians would come in low across the North sea, or up the thames estuary.. but a hijacked airliner? no problem.It seems that pretty competent people are starting to cry out against this monumental waste of taxpayers money leaving that aside, and leaving the fact that the power actually generated by windmills is estimated to...

Mar 06, 2008 481 Replies

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dennis 18 years ago

is perceived as unreliable.. you know that for virtually every wind turbine there has to be a fast start gas/diesel generator and they could be in homes.

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Huge 18 years ago

Hear, hear. [applauds]

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