no to windfarms

[Antithropocentric]

I hope I live to see the day when the worst turbines are torn down and their cement pads are covered by dirt and grass. Same with the huge network of access roads. I wonder if that's economically feasible, though, unless the metal is badly needed for recycling at some point.

[richardyingren]

wind generation is a fallacy ... get real.

[WockneysRedBarrel]

@richardyingren I notice your dismissiveness of burt2481's comment. Why don't you address his point? - If not wind then what, and prove that your alternative has less environmental impact than wind power.

[burt2481]

Of course you do not use electric so as to help keep the beauty of the land?

[Whaup67]

On the real world evidence, wind power generation will not close any thermal power stations or make any significant contribution to CO2 emissions.

Germany has 23,000MW of installed capacity and still has the highest CO2 emissions in the EU. Oh yes, they are also going ahead with 26 new coal-fired power stations, because they need new baseload power plant and are hamstrung from building nuclear by a past political commitment not to build nuclear.

Welcome to the real world!

[Whaup67]

We hear alot about Danish wind power, but did you know that:

"The largest output of sustainable energy in Denmark comes from biomass, that is, from the burning of, or the production of combustible gases from, hay, wood chips, manure from domestic animals, and garbage. Biomass accounts for 80% of the Danish production of sustainable energy." (Danish Government Portal).

[Whaup67]

OK. The 300MW Teesport biomass plant occupies a brownfield site that is only 10% of the area of a small 'wind farm'. It will operate for c. 8,000 hours p.a. producing 2,400,000MWh of predictable, base load power.

"As the project will run 24 hours per day, 365 days per annum, it will generate as much renewable electricity as a 1,000MWe offshore wind farm (equivalent to that generated by the London Array wind farm which is one of the largest renewable energy projects in the world)"

[WockneysRedBarrel]

You can't simply say no without coming up with a viable alternative, and cutting motorway lighting is not an example. Neither is LARGE SCALE wave power and offshore wind is ~30% more expensive than onshore.

Also, all the UK's nuclear plants except Sizewell B are schedueld to close by 2025. A dozen of the UK's coal plants will close by 2015 in response to the EU Large Combustion Plant Directive.

So considering all this and your objection to wind please put forward a viable alternative.