Britain believes they need those stinkin’ giant fans and has been carpeting the landscape with them. However
New figures published by The Sunday Telegraph show that 2010 was, by one authoritative measure, the least windy year since 1824.
The lack of wind is caused by global warming, I’d guess.
I have noticed that Al Gore hasn’t been out talking as much. Just sayin’!
Nah, the lack of wind is caused by all these giant wind turbines getting in the way. If they would get rid of the suckers then the wind would start blowing again.
So just like light bulbs are actually dark suckers, these turbines are wind sponges?
The birds and the wind made a deal – the wind likes the birds and the birds like the wind; both hate the bird choppers. The wind agreed to shut down if the birds would agree to not use the free drafts without thanks. Mother nature does not suffer fools.
I see from a story at the link, post was dated in 2009, England is also exploring floating wind farms,modelled on the floating oil rigs.
It’s a hell of a good idea, if onshore windmills are costly and NOT cost effective, floating windmills can only be worse,more costly,even less cost effective.
If you’re gonna screw things up,might as well do it big time!
Gore disappears in the winter and the lame stream media look the other way.
Re the comments of dmorris above: the EU is in the process of constructing vast wind farms in the North Sea. Most of the wind turbines are or are to be bottom-mounted. One photo shows the turbines with the blades only about 20 m above a relatively quiet sea.
Now the problem with that is that the North Sea is brutal. The winter storms can be comparable to at least Cat. 1 hurricanes. And then there is sea water – until you have seen sea water attack and corrode a block of lead you will not understand just how aggressive sea water is. Ships require constant repainting (maybe the new epoxy paints are better). The maintenance requirements for these wind thingies are going to be much greater than for the same wind turbines mounted on land well away from the sea. I’ve seen no evidence that this has been taken into account. In the photos of the maritime wind turbines which I have seen they look just like wind turbines in, say, Saskatchewan.
And then there is the matter of ice loading.
I predict that in ten years time we will see large numbers of abandoned, rusting, broken, corroded wind turbines in the North Sea. The builders will be long gone, and the companies which developed and were supposed to maintain them will long be bankrupt. Only the debt will remain.
Last night Robert has a Reader Tips link featuring an interview with David Horowitz and Pat Caddell. One of them talked about the Green Movement being more about getting money to the right people than saving the environment. In the UK this certainly seems to be the case. The Daily Mail had an article awhile back about Prince Charles and the offshore wind farms scheme.
Queen’s £38m a year offshore windfarm windfall – because she owns the seabed
By Martin Delgado and Christopher Leake
Last updated at 10:04 AM on 24th October 2010
* Prince to profit from his support for green energy
* Lucrative deal is a ‘masterstroke’ for Palace aide
* Revenue already soaring by 44 per cent a year
The Royal Family have secured a lucrative deal that will earn them tens of millions of pounds from the massive expansion of offshore windfarms.
They will net up to £37.5 million extra income every year from the drive for green energy because the seabed within Britain’s territorial waters is owned by the Crown Estate.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323228/Queens-38m-year-offshore-windfarm-windfall–owns-seabed.html#ixzz1B9xqfm9L
I suspect that most of the wind is being generated between the ears of the politicians falling for this scam.
From John Lewis “I predict that in ten years time we will see large numbers of abandoned, rusting, broken, corroded wind turbines in the North Sea. The builders will be long gone, and the companies which developed and were supposed to maintain them will long be bankrupt. Only the debt will remain.”
What about an abandoned windmill removal business? Certainly simply letting those windmills corrode on their own would be a bad thing. A few billion from the government to remove them is not out of the order. Of course if they tip over and sink just before they were to be removed that would hardly be my fault. Know any SEAL demolition experts?
From the article, this makes perfect sense.
” Wind turbine manufacture has recently slumped and factories have been closed as demand has fallen, prompting calls for more public subsidy.”
Having these white elephants out at sea beyond public view will make their coming disposal much less embarrassing for the usual suspects.
The Brisbane floods . . . Human Caused Disaster.
blah,blah, blah Global Warming causes drought.
It will never rain again,
What really happened
http://tinyurl.com/GlobalFrikinWarmingConJob
Only naive and completely gullible politicians could believe that wind mills would play a prominent role in 21 century technology. Man has spent centuries seeking alternatives to wind power precisely because of its unreliability.
The wind energy industry is powered not by wind, but by massive government subsidy. Once the subsidies end, the companies fold, or move elsewhere, currently that is McGuinty’s Ont.
In the coming decades, Ont. taxpayers will pay more to demolish useless turbines then they payed to erect them in the first place. Quite the legacy for Dalton McGuinty.
Global Calming?