Stop Woodlane wind farm - before it's too late
If the developers get their way we will have turbines from Doncaster all the way to Darlington.
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Stop Woodlane wind farm - before it's too late |
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If the developers get their way we will have turbines from Doncaster all the way to Darlington.
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Byram windfarm - Views from Burton Salmon |
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Byram wind farm as it might be seen over Burton Salmon - 9 turbines tower over the village as you approach down Ledgate Lane from Hillam Lane. In the background - Eggborough power station - generates up to 1960 Mega watts when required - on average it produces about 1000MWatts. In the foreground, towering over the village, 9 turbines with a theoretical maximum output of 22.5Mwatts - produced only in a steady wind of over 27mph and no power when the wind is less than 9mph. Average will be 5 to 6 Mwatt or only half a percent of the power produced by Eggborough. Power that is as unpredictable as the wind.
Byram wind farm as it will be seen from Poole Lane - Nine 125 metre high turbines, seen over the top of the trees which are about 25 metres high. In the distant background on this picture is Drax power station - to the left of the end of the line of trees. Drax is twice the size of Eggborough and has a capacity of 3960Mwatts. It produces 7% of the power needed in the UK. You would need about 4000 wind turbines to replace the power Drax produces and even if you stretch them all the way from Derby to Dunbar ( you would not be able to get this many between Doncaster and Darlington ) you would still have periods of calm when no power would be produced. Wind turbines are not the answer to our power needs - it is not acceptable to sacrifice rural England simply to satisfy the greed of the wind farm companies who profit via indirect subsidy and government incentives.
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