Re: wind farms
Date: 6 Feb 2005 at 22:01
I can understand why many people will think it is a good idea- that's fine with me so long as it is a fully informed opinion. I have spent hours looking up stuff on the internet but the basic question is not whether commercial (ie profit making, big multinational business) windfarms should exist, but whether they should occupy open countryside, and be close to people in Bradwell/Tillingham/Asheldham and most likely Burnham, or should they be in less obtrusive places like out to sea, or in an industrial landscape. They will not solve our energy problems- widnfarms are not the only answer. I fully agree with you that the windfarm angle is diverting attention from other forms of energy production/research etc which would prove a longer term better bet. As to the 5% sawdust i have no idea- but I do not like the idea of "green credits" earned by windfarms in this country being sold at incredible prices to coal power stations elsewhere who can then say they have fulfilled their "green " requirements by purchasing someone elses credits. It is lucdicrous.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read my original post- I feel passionately about this, but the main thing is to ensure that everyone on the Peninsular is aware this is going on, because, for or against, it will affect all of us (over 1000 big dump trucks to remove the footings for just one turbine, x 42+ turbines, coming in (and going out) on our two main routes in. Then there is all the actual hardware, workmen etc. The concrete for the foundations.....)
> I never worried about the nuclear power generation on the peninsula --
> after all, it doesn't contribute to global warming in the same way as
> fossil fuels or worse still the latest "biofuel" trials which just involve
> chucking 5% sawdust in at coal stations "to meet quotas" on renewable
> energy. I believe that had privatisation of the power industry not
> occured, and the green lobby had not been so paranoid about the whole
> thing; then the research regarding re-use of "spent" nuclear fuel in fast
> breeder reactors could have been a little more developed.
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