Wind Farm

[Amadeus]

I do not know for certain.

With a little bit of translation 'Nescio certe' would make a fine motto for you.

Hic puer est stultissimus omnium!

[Truth Seeker]

Where Eagles Dare to Fly.

 

Eagle slaughter: Wind farms kill 67 eagles in 5 years.

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/11/eagle-slaughter-wind-farms-kill-67-eagles-5-years/

[Slim]

Very sad, unfortunately there's been a lot learned at the birds costs about where to position the turbines and other ways of discouraging wildlife such as bats from straying into them. There's also some evidence recently that shows that bird migration routes are changing in account of wind farms which may reduce deaths.

 

That aside:

 

https://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Protect-Habitat/Gulf-Restoration/Oil-Spill/Effects-on-Wildlife.aspx

 

"More than 8,000 birds, sea turtles, and marine mammals were found injured or dead in the six months after the spill."

[Moghrey Mie]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/killer-cats-take-down-billions-of-birds-report-says-1.1312489

[Truth Seeker]

Wind farms and renewable energy: a modern version of a medieval scam.

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglascarswellmp/100236055/wind-farms-and-renewable-energy-a-modern-version-of-a-medieval-scam/

[Slim]

Wind farms and renewable energy: a modern version of a medieval scam.

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglascarswellmp/100236055/wind-farms-and-renewable-energy-a-modern-version-of-a-medieval-scam/

Do you have a point? That's just an opinion piece, from a chap who's very often wrong. It's not like it's backed up with anything like facts or research or anything.

[Truth Seeker]

 

 

 

Wind farms and renewable energy: a modern version of a medieval scam.

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglascarswellmp/100236055/wind-farms-and-renewable-energy-a-modern-version-of-a-medieval-scam/

Do you have a point? That's just an opinion piece, from a chap who's very often wrong. It's not like it's backed up with anything like facts or research or anything.

 

 

The answer to this is very simple, end the subsidies and let the most efficient win.

[The Bastard]

Freakonomics mentions a chat with some members of a think-tank who derided wind power as "an exercise in Government subsidy" - sadly it's largely turned out to be right.

 

From Power Magazine : http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/speaking_of_power/Spanish-Wind-Revisited_3545.html

 

"Rather than debate free market economics, let’s use Spain as a case study of the effect of deficit spending to provide excessive government subsidies for renewable energy. Spain uses a generous feed-in-tariff (FIT) to spur the growth of renewables. In 2010, the wind subsidies paid by the government were an average of €38 ($52.50 today) per MWh above the wholesale market price of electricity. This subsidy was paid for by government deficit spending amounting to €6.3 billion in 2010 alone, according to a Bloomberg analysis, until Spain’s economy crashed.

But give credit to the Spanish government for ordering a series of significant budget cuts that should reduce the deficit to 6% in 2011 from 11.2% in 2009. In truth, the cuts were forced by the European Union (EU) because Spain’s economy was threatening the entire EU monetary system, but the cuts were nevertheless made.

The big surprise occurred this past February when Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero admitted that the solar industry in Spain just might be a “bubble” after all and that Spain is no long financially capable of paying such lucrative FITs. The bubble soon burst, and one of the government’s austerity moves was to reduce the overall renewable FIT subsidies by about 45%, starting in the second quarter of 2011, to thereby reduce deficit spending."

As far as tidal power goes, here's a recent project in Scotland :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24100811

...based on the sums there, to generate the IOM's total generated output would take not far short of 200 turbines, and they're pretty substantial pieces of kit. It's not just about bunging a couple in the Sound, and waiting for the power to surge out, it takes a huge amount of investment and construction to create huge arrays of turbines for it to be anything like cost effective.

[Slim]

The answer to this is very simple, end the subsidies and let the most efficient win.

 

 

The most efficient what? There isn't a viable alternative renewable in the UK that will scale like wind.