Readings new landmark!!
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Wow Has anyone else seen readings new wind turbine? you cant miss it if you drive past junc 11 on the M4. It was connected to the grid today. Good to see things like this been done.
www.ecotricity.co.uk/projects/plan_greenpark.html
www.ecotricity.co.uk/projects/plan_greenpark.html
white_van_man said:
Wow Has anyone else seen readings new wind turbine? you cant miss it if you drive past junc 11 on the M4. It was connected to the grid today. Good to see things like this been done.
www.ecotricity.co.uk/projects/plan_greenpark.html
Good? You're having a laugh aren't you? Costs far more to construct than it'll ever realistically produce and looks hideous.
simpo two said:
Hope 1500 families won't mind sitting in the dark and cold when it's a calm day. They can cheer themselves up knowing that the planet is safe after all. Can't burn anything to keep warm, it's against H&S regs and you might get cancer.
Well that's the genius! In effect, it's a self regulating valve. The greater global warming the, more likely there will be extreme weather!
Parrot of doom said:
Good? You're having a laugh aren't you? Costs far more to construct than it'll ever realistically produce
Proof please.
i would be interested to see that aswell. it can only be a good thing, ok its not that pretty but iv seen worse things, and it will generate enough power to run the whole of the new estate that they are building in reading.
When there is no wind, there generate no power. When there is no wind, they actually CONSUME power as they have to be kept rotating to keep the mechanism lubricated and functioning properly. The power to keep them running has to come from the national grid.
If wind power was so marvellous, we would still be sailing ships like The Cutty Sark amd HMS Victory. There had to be some reason why no one uses it anymore.
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 18th November 08:39
If wind power was so marvellous, we would still be sailing ships like The Cutty Sark amd HMS Victory. There had to be some reason why no one uses it anymore.
>> Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 18th November 08:39
White_van_Man said:
im all for these things, i would rather see a few of these appear around the country that a neuclear power station!!!!!
One of these produces a tiny tiny fraction of a percentage point of the power produced by a single Nuclear power plant. A few thousands or tens of thousand perhaps to match the power from a single reactor...
Crikey the NIMBY's have been out in force everywhere with their propaganda.
Even if they are expensive, so what thats jobs created, thats wealth created. In exchange for what? electricity of course. Yes there are non windy days here in the UK, about 40 a year on average tops (though thats not UK wide - except in exceptional anticyclone weather like today!). Going by my very rough calculations thats 320 days a year of FREE to the "enviroment" electricty.
Utter B*****X about needing them to kept turning
they just sit idle until a gust blows, they only need 3 knots of wind to start working.
Don't let the nimby's propaganda machine fool you.
If I was the government, I section the country up so each town/village/city had to provide its own electricty from its own resources, then we'd soon see a change of heart. What a power station in my back yard! OK what will it be then? No electricty at all? I think a locally sourced supply system would soon have everyone with a small wind turbine in their back yard if there was little or no alternative. Another 50 years when the coal/gas/oil supplies are drasticly expensive you'll soon change your minds
>> Edited by cptsideways on Friday 18th November 09:55
Even if they are expensive, so what thats jobs created, thats wealth created. In exchange for what? electricity of course. Yes there are non windy days here in the UK, about 40 a year on average tops (though thats not UK wide - except in exceptional anticyclone weather like today!). Going by my very rough calculations thats 320 days a year of FREE to the "enviroment" electricty.
Utter B*****X about needing them to kept turning
they just sit idle until a gust blows, they only need 3 knots of wind to start working. Don't let the nimby's propaganda machine fool you.
If I was the government, I section the country up so each town/village/city had to provide its own electricty from its own resources, then we'd soon see a change of heart. What a power station in my back yard! OK what will it be then? No electricty at all? I think a locally sourced supply system would soon have everyone with a small wind turbine in their back yard if there was little or no alternative. Another 50 years when the coal/gas/oil supplies are drasticly expensive you'll soon change your minds
>> Edited by cptsideways on Friday 18th November 09:55
White_van_Man said:
im all for these things, i would rather see a few of these appear around the country that a neuclear power station!!!!!
Personally I'm up for nuke power. Ok so we need to store the waste REALLY safely. But that can be done and in time it'll become safe. I like wind turbines as well but think of all the energy that went into collecting the iron ore/smelting/casting/transporting, and then theres the fact if it's a still day they produce no electricity so it has to come from somewhere. If we dont have the coal and oil power stations wheres it coming from? Hydro?... I dont think we have any continuous Hydro power in the UK. Solar's out for the UK really.
If someone can come up with a really good reason not to build a new generation of nukes I'd like to hear it.....
>> Edited by Munter on Friday 18th November 10:04
Eh, "I dont think we have any continuous Hydro power in the UK"
Does your UK stop somewhere south of Watford ?
www.hydro.co.uk/
p.s. only joking with the Watford comment but we have had Hydro power in the UK
for a very long time.
jims2 said:
Eh, "I dont think we have any continuous Hydro power in the UK"
Does your UK stop somewhere south of Watford ?
www.hydro.co.uk/
p.s. only joking with the Watford comment but we have had Hydro power in the UK
for a very long time.
Oh we have hydro. But the only ones I know of store up water and then let it go ina "burst" significantly less than a day long. E.g. they are not a source of continuous power. Very usefull for TV ad brake spikes in demand, not so good for covering a non windy day. If you can find a hydro station in the UK that supplies continuous power i'll bet it provides less than a nuke...
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