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Gordon Brown launched last week "the greatest revolution in our energy policy since the advent of nuclear power" He refers to a policy centred on building thousands some 20,000 of new wind turbinesacross the UK.at an estimate cost of a massive £100 billion.
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Nothing conveys the futility of wind power more vividly than the fact that electricity generated by the 2,000 wind turbines already built in Britain is still less than that produced by a single medium-sized conventional power station.
Nothing conveys the futility of wind power more vividly than the fact that electricity generated by the 2,000 wind turbines already built in Britain is still less than that produced by a single medium-sized conventional power station.
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Not least of the madness of this policy is that the intermittency of the wind means that we will need considerably more wind turbine capacity to reach the government's mythical figures than has been allowed for. According to independent calculations, to contribute 10GW which the system would have to produce would need 30GW of capacity. This would require up to twice as many turbines as ministers are talking about..
Not least of the madness of this policy is that the intermittency of the wind means that we will need considerably more wind turbine capacity to reach the government's mythical figures than has been allowed for. According to independent calculations, to contribute 10GW which the system would have to produce would need 30GW of capacity. This would require up to twice as many turbines as ministers are talking about..
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Christopher Booker returns to the fray in The Sunday Telegraph with a vengeance in today's column, firing a 24-gun broadside against this wind farm madness, which is a huge waste of tax payers money that can do no more than provide a huge and expensive sop to the Green lobby!
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