Wind Farms

[Badged01]

Is it me or is this growth in wind farms just ridiculous?

Doesn't this country have enough wind of its own without wasting electricity making more of it by running these big fans? Its a blatant Tory waste of the tax payers money ......

 

[trev]

I don't think you've quite grasped the concept mate

 

[trev]

Are you bored?

 

[Badged01]

Not yet but Im starting to get close .......

 

[stevethesparks]

Being the cynic I am, I've often said (jokingly) they contain motors rather than generators and we are all being ripped off.

 

[Plonker 3]

I usually have one in my pants after a curry.

 

[telectrix]

I don't think you've quite grasped the concept mate

it's for the sailing fraternity. making wind for the sails. why do you think they put them offshore?

 

[guest119]

Have you seen the state of Jockland with the horrible things?

 

[benji]

If they work on lots of wind should,nt they encircle westminster with them

 

[KAS1]

I think if we build enough wind farms we should be able to turn the earth on it's axis a few degrees and then maybe we'll have the climate of the med lol

 

[Bobster]

Is it me or is this growth in wind farms just ridiculous?

Doesn't this country have enough wind of its own without wasting electricity making more of it by running these big fans? Its a blatant Tory waste of the tax payers money ......

Do you read Viz by any chance?

 

[PEG]

He's got a point,if "they" genuinely want to generate energy using free,plentiful easily available sources,why have they not built a system powered by litter,dog muck and bad manners? ...not been many places where i've noticed a shortage of these...:bobby:

 

[happysteve]

Had a tour of a facility that models and tests the power converters in big offshore wind turbines today. 3MW at 690V. Let's say, 30m, buried singles. There and back. That's quite a lot of copper!

Awesome technology in the power converters, too

 

[Fin170]

I think the thousands at home in Devon must to blowing too hard against the ones in Essex and vice a versa because every time I drive between the two neither sets seem to be working...

I do love the way they are getting put up literally everywhere, provide no energy, take away funding from vital upgrades (roads & DNO especially), are always installed by Germans and I get to pay extra to the people that could afford these gigantic turds in the first place :evil2:

 

[Simon-0116]

If you had the land and the right place would you say no if they wanted to pay you for doing nothing, i no i would have them

 

[Besoeker]

Being the cynic I am, I've often said (jokingly) they contain motors rather than generators and we are all being ripped off.

Currently (23:15)supplying 10.58% of UK electrical energy.

 

[PEG]

If you had the land and the right place would you say no if they wanted to pay you for doing nothing, i no i would have them

Absolutely no insult intended,but if justification of an unsustainable model is based solely on what YOU individually can gain from it....then 2007 never happened...now where is my "men in black" MEMORY PEN...:conehead:

 

[Engineer54]

Of all the green energy models, the wind turbine is the least economical of them all!! As i'm sure most have seen for themselves, many of these turbines not working, that's mainly because of the high instance of failures and maintenance/repairs on these massive turbines don't come cheap!!

 

[Knobhead]

At least someone’s pulled their finger out and the first new nuclear station is to be built (by the bloody french!).

I’ll be dead before it comes on line.

 

[RobWansbeck]

But we're going to pay the French twice the going rate since we've wasted so much on wind farms.