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[omega3000]

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-17990930

[Plomien]

Joy, more turbines to spoil my view

[bored bigyin54]

not for me dont live near there

[Varche]

The Victorian engineers would be turning in their graves.

"three years to construct and have a lifetime of 25 years,"

It is a pylon with a blade and a magneto for goodness sake. In 25 years will they blow them up and put up a new one in its place. That one expected to last 15 years?

[omega3000]

not for me dont live near there

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly 

[bored bigyin54]

not for me dont live near there

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly 

no chance it will go up like allways

[omega3000]

not for me dont live near there

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly 

no chance it will go up like allways

I dunno ,  250MW from 76 turbines should make some difference 

[Nickbat]

not for me dont live near there

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly 

no chance it will go up like allways

I dunno ,  250MW from 76 turbines should make some difference 

Unless it's not windy, in which case their output will be the square root of f.a. 

[Rods2]

Most turbines struggle to reach 30% of their rated output per year. Just think of all of those conventional power stations efficiently sitting on tickover, to provide power between the gusts of wind.

When in a few years you are having power black outs during the winter, where the UK has a calm high pressure, with very cold air straight from the Arctic and the remaining backup power stations can't cope with demand, I expect you will be saying I'm glad the EU made us get rid of all of our coal fired power stations and they have replaced them (at great expense on our electricity bills) with these useful wind turbines. 

There is an EU directive that coal fired power stations, must use CO2 removal technologies by 2015 or be phased out, the nuclear power stations that are meant to replace them will not be ready until at least 2020, if ever. 

[scimmy_man]

a few hydro electric stations would help when its not blowing,

you have loads of vallys to flood dontya?

[Varche]

Most turbines struggle to reach 30% of their rated output per year. Just think of all of those conventional power stations efficiently sitting on tickover, to provide power between the gusts of wind.

When in a few years you are having power black outs during the winter, where the UK has a calm high pressure, with very cold air straight from the Arctic and the remaining backup power stations can't cope with demand, I expect you will be saying I'm glad the EU made us get rid of all of our coal fired power stations and they have replaced them (at great expense on our electricity bills) with these useful wind turbines. 

There is an EU directive that coal fired power stations, must use CO2 removal technologies by 2015 or be phased out, the nuclear power stations that are meant to replace them will not be ready until at least 2020, if ever. 

Worry ye not. The shortfall will be made up by using GAS powered stations. Plenty of cheap and reliable gas from our friends in Russia. Yo Putin.   

[aaronjb]

a few hydro electric stations would help when its not blowing,

you have loads of vallys to flood dontya?

Yeah - it's about time we did something useful with Wales & Scotland...

*legs it*

[albitz]

Anyone remember the Govt experts in the 60,s/70,s who said that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter ? 

[Varche]

Anyone remember the Govt experts in the 60,s/70,s who said that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter ? 

Yes and at the same time we were told that computers would do so much that we had to prepare ourselves for MORe leisure time as we would all be on 4 or maybe 3 day weeks. I wonder if those experts are still giving their sage pronouncements now? 

[omega3000]

Lets hope they use some decent brake pads on them 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o&feature=related