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[Nickbat]

Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy - but a very good way to generate public subsidies

Last week’s decision by Miriam González Durántez, wife of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to join a leading wind-farm company has thrown the spotlight on one of Britain’s most controversial industries.

Mrs Durántez’s firm, Acciona, is seeking planning permission to add another 23 wind turbines to the view from Plynlimon, filling up some of the remaining skyline not yet occupied by them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/7823681/Does-money-grow-in-wind-farms.html

 

[tidla]

I didn't expect anything different from this govermnet so I am not disappointed.

Lets go back to sending people underground to hew out coal to create electricity. That would get unemployement down. We could also buy obsolete power station technology from East European countries, that would save a few bob.

For my two penworth, lets build the Severn Barrage and show the world Britain is as good today at engineering as the Victorians were.   

This would be a disaster, it would wreck the environment, Slimbridge would be useless, the mud flats which are used by a lot of birds would be flooded.

The Severn Bore would be no more, and there would be no tides at Tewkesbury (MIll Avon) or Lower/Upper Lode (Severn).

Then finally - this slows the moon down so one day we will no longer have one.
Build a few nuclear power stations around the estuary

did you slip that one in for a giggle?