Will all the wind farms now be torn down?

[New Judge]

Well, will they ??


http://www.telegraph....-finds-new-study.html

[237SJ]

I dearly, dearly wish they would be. I`m not keeping my fingers crossed though.

[FredPuli43]

No. The reasons why are set out in your link, New Judge.

[paddywak]

I doubt it, too many people have put their money and reputations into wind farm technology to ditch it out off hand.

[237SJ]

The only people who have put their money into wind farms are the manufacturers, the wind farm companies and the farmers who are coining it by having turbines on their land. In that respect, there aren`t that many people who are making money out of windfarms.

[woofgang]

Now I would love to know who funded that research because I am a cynical old witch......

[baza]

think your right to much money tied up in this con, has any investigation been carried out on the sea bed where these monster windmills are erected.

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps we had better flatten all mountains aswell, as they have an effect on the air above them.

[Philtaz]

I started a thread about wind farms a month or two back, or more specifically the vast amounts being paid to operators to turn them OFF.

Someone is definitely making a lot of money out of literally nothing.

http://money.aol.co.u...itching-off-turbines/

[Old_Geezer]

I think the overall global effect would be minimal, probably only noticable over large farms, and one can't expect to cover everything. The question is whether the pros and cons total to a net pro, which given the need for diverse energy production, it probably does. We can't put all our eggs into one energy producing basket, and anything we humans do will affect something somewhere. Just something to keep an eye on I suspect.

[rojash]

Marvellously misleading headline. Swapping warm air from higher altitudes with colder air from close to the ground becomes "climate change"? What next? "Fridge in kitchen causes climate change"?

[emmie]

no, they will build more, and keep on doing so until the landscape is awash with them. Prince Charles who was once an vehement opponent of them is now considering putting them offshore on one of his estates. Ugliness personified. And about as effective as a toy train taking thousands of lowly commuters to their toil.

[emmie]

and as yet know one knows the full impact of these monsters offshore, on the creatures of the deep, i truly hate them and would tear them down as soon as humanly possible. Some people are coining it in, but for those who like their views of the countryside reasonably unspoilt, then tough. Electricity pylons are tame in comparison in size and usefulness.

[Gromit]

During the flying ban in the US after 9/11 it was observed that airplane vapour trail pollution was actually lowering the surface temperature of the US by between 1 and 1 degrees. Th pollution was blocking out the Sun and the result was an over all cooling.

The conclusion wasn't that all air flight should stop. By the same token, a very localised change in surface temperature in the footfall of these turbines is utterly meaningless.

[douglas9401]

" Prince Charles who was once an vehement opponent of them is now considering putting them offshore on one of his estates. Ugliness personified."

Well he's no oil painting but.....................:)

[anotheoldgit]

Has anyone visited one of these sea-side towns, where the wind farms are sitting off shore?

Because when ever I visit one of these resorts, it's freezing, so if they are going to heat up these cold and windy resorts, I say erect even more. :0)

[jomifl]

Very amusing, Wind farms just convert kinetic energy eventually to heat. They do not produce heat from chemical or nuclear reactions and they do not produce greenhouse gasses. Presumably if the areas where wind farms are situated warm up then elsewhere will be cooler as there is no net increase in the amount of energy and the reduced geeenhouse gasses will have a further cooling effect.

[pdq1]

I'm surprised they haven't erected one on the house of Westminster. The amount of windbags in the commons will keep it blowing at full speed.

[TWR]

Will pigs Fly New?