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Wind farms are bad news.
Weekend press coverage 5/6 Nov 2011.
Wind farm kills 500 birds
Ditching expensive wind farms ‘will save £34bn’
Chris Huhne wrong on euro, wrong on wind.
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Wind turbines are as well as, not instead of the power stations
Scrapping wind farms in favour of nuclear and gas will save each of us £550
Shelving expensive wind farms in favour of cheaper nuclear and gas-fired power stations would save every Briton almost £550, it is claimed.
Government plans to cut pollution by a third by 2020 rely heavily on wind power and will cost £108billion to implement, an accountancy firm has calculated.
But shifting the emphasis away from turbines and towards nuclear and gas-fired power stations would slash the bill by £34billion, according to KPMG.
This equates to around £550 for every person in the country. Read the full story in the Daily Mail
Hundreds of birds killed in one night during migration - Relevant to Cleek Hall
With the deaths of nearly 500 birds at the Laurel Mountain wind facility recently,
three of the four wind farms operating in West Virginia have now experienced large
bird fatality events, according to American Bird Conservancy (ABC).
There were three
critical circumstances that tragically aligned in each of the three West Virginia
events to kill these birds. Each occurred during bird migration season, during low
visibility weather conditions, and with the addition of a deadly triggering element
- an artificial light source.
Conditions very similar to those around Selby . Read the full report.
Panorama exposes wind farms as a waste of your money, £130 per year at present and rising with every extra turbine - Watch Chris Huhne waffle and blame somebody else
If you missed Panorama on Monday 7 Oct where they investigated the way that wind energy is driving the cost of electricity ever upwards you can watch it on BBC I- player. Click here to watch
Chris Huhne is certainly coming in for some well deserved stick.
His judgement does appear to sadly lacking.
It now comes to light that in 2002 he wrote “joining the euro would increase our incomes and our standard of living”, that the euro was a huge success and that the critics who had so far managed to stop us from joining had been proved wrong on every point.
Chris Huhne, whose current panacea for Britain’s ills is his dream that we should pay £200 billion, to largely foreign-owned companies, to cover our countryside and sea with thousands of inefficient and ludicrously expensive windmills – not to mention filling our roads with even more useless electric cars. Another of Huhne’s fellow euro-fans was Adair Turner, who now works alongside him as chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, sharing his infatuation with windmills and electric cars.
Bats killed in large numbers by wind turbines
It's something of an ecological murder mystery — countless numbers of bats are turning up dead near wind farms. But what is killing them? Could it happen at Cleek Hall.
Bats can easily navigate around stationary objects but the spinning turbines — where the blade tip can be moving about 175 miles per hour — pose a problem. With an echo-location range of about 60 feet, Drake says, "a bat would have roughly a quarter of a second to react to a turbine blade — not very long at all."
And although bats are sometimes able to avoid a direct hit and fly between the blades, the dramatic air pressure change surrounding a blade can cause serious internal injuries, akin to the bends that affect a human diver who ascends too quickly. See University study into the cause of the bat deaths.
The problem is not just Selby
Highlands of Scotland - Hundreds of turbines already, more in the pipeline. See map I have been , I have seen and do not plan to return.
Cornwall - A hundred of wind farms. See map. I won’t be going for my hoidays either
The fanaticism with wind energy amounts to little more than a false hope that by destroying the countryside the environment will be saved. The CO2 savings claimed by wind farm developers can only be delivered if there is no back up power for when there is no wind.