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>> | No. 1885
1885
A wind farm has been paid £1.2 million not to produce electricity for eight-and-a-half hours. The National Grid asked the company, Fred Olsen Renewables, to shut down its Crystal Rig II wind farm last Saturday for a little over eight hours amid fears the electricity network would become overloaded. |
>> | No. 1886
1886
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>> | No. 1887
1887
Wind farm projects are a clusterfuck of terribleness. I'm going to try and find the documents which outline how much electricity is actually coming out of these machines, because the figures are apalling. They don't work in winter when we need electricity the most, for example, and as in OP the National Grid is actually having to pay off foreign companies for not producing electricity with them. |
>> | No. 1888
1888
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>> | No. 1889
1889
In the good weather when it is calm, they are useless and we get no electricity. In the windy weather they have to be turned off to stop them from flying apart and so we get no electricity. At other times we have to pay ten times normal costs to foreign companies to have them sitting doing nothing while we get no electricity. They are expensive to build, design and maintain and need to take up special spots and potentially large areas to be functional. |
>> | No. 1890
1890
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>> | No. 1891
1891
I definitely support the idea of windfarms and projects - they manage them perfectly well in France and other places in Europe, it's clear though that the National Grid and the system of subsidies is at fault here. |
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1892
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1893
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1896
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1899
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>> | No. 1900
1900
Go with coal. We can use that for a long time to come, until Thorium or other future alternatives crop up. Forcing our hand too early is a terrible idea. |
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1901
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1913
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1918
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>> | No. 1921
1921
alternative_energy_revolution.jpg Only one man can save us - sage for not really adding much other than a borrowed touch of humour |
>> | No. 1922
1922
Wind turbines are fashionable. They spring up to subsidise the swimming pools and the mansions of the rich, while the rest of the little villagers have to look on in disgust. |
>> | No. 1923
1923
If the revivied abiotic oil theory works out then we could end up with a renewable resource with vast quantitites. The soviets seem to have been on to something. |
>> | No. 1924
1924
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1928
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