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# ahhahhah!
 
THIS SORT OF THINKING WILL SAVE THE PLANET.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:39, archived)
# or they will spin to fast and make the planet move into the sun.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:43, archived)
# IT'S A WIN-WIN SITUATION.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:44, archived)
# apart from the fact that wind turbines are one of the most inefficent ways of generating power
and the grenation of the amount of concrete needed for a base for one of them more then offsets their green status.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:44, archived)
# Okay, how about rounding up all the chavs and chaining them to treadmills?
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:47, archived)
# That's priceless
Got any stats to back that up?

Oh please oh please oh please say yes...
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:48, archived)
# yes, there are lots of fact on the web about them
infact a turbine company was rapped on the knuckles for over playing up the estimated power that their turbines were to produce.

household turbines
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2006/11/are_domestic_wind_turbines_an_ecocon.html

a splendid site linked off the bbc one.
www.timhunkin.com/a125_arch-windpower.htm

tut-tut nawty turbines
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/09/nwind09.xml

commercial turbines
www.davidbellamy.co.uk/wind.htm

it's bloody david bellamy, innit.

dont't get me wrong, i'm all in favour of renewable energy, but i just don't think this is the way and the facts have been glossed over slightly for share holders, offshore is by far the bvest way to go, rather then ruining the landsacpe of britan with them.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 23:05, archived)
# Coolness
I've had the creeping feeling that they were being desperately oversold. Nice to have something to back that up.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 23:17, archived)
# government targets for windfarms are that they run at 30% effeciancy
and it's really only offshore ones that get near or over that mark.

they have also pushed through the development of britons largest turbines in devon, at over 400 foot high in a mid devon vally just above the dartmoor national park. like the ones in cumbria they are fleetingly outside the boundry of the designated national park where any application would automatically be turned down.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 23:25, archived)
# they should just get lots of fat people to sit on the bases
a few weeks up on the moors would do them the power of good, when they lose a few stone or die just replace them with some more.
(, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:50, archived)