wind

[wobs]

heard on the radio last night that the chances of power cuts are getting greater, I don't know anything about wind power apart from them being all over the country so what are they all about or was this quantertitive easing

We don't yet have enough wind turbines for them to course grid stability problems. That will be in about 2020. We are already looking to increase connections with the rest of Europe to help with this, as there are not many viable energy storage options available to tackle it.

 

[AronSearle]

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83221

One answer to our current problems would be thus to revolt against gargantuanism, which has been a particularly serious disease since the sixties (remember the Walker local government reforms). And that applies as much to nuclear as it does wind farms. Rather than 1GW-plus giant nukes in the boondocks, we could and should have mini-nukes in every industrial estate.



For those horror-struck by the idea, a quick visit to Derby is called-for, to the Rolls Royce plant, where there has been a mini-nuke operating for decades, and where they are successfully manufactured - a major British industry that is largely ignored.

 

[Nige F]

-, we could and should have mini-nukes in every industrial estate.



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I`ll bet Joe would drop a few ON every Council estate

 

[joinerjohn]

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since the Japanese nuclear generator problems, lots of people have got less keen on nukes. Maybe one day the Morecambe Bay barrage will be built.

Japan had a very specific set of circumstances which caused the problems with Fukushima. None of which are likely to happen in the UK,, So what's the problem with nuclear generation? Ahhhh it's to keep the Green Brigade happy (but they won't ever be happy, until we're transported back to the middle ages ,, will they ?)

 

[jeds]

Current wind turbines have no positive benefit and never will. The only reason we have them is so governments can tick a box and because certain powerful businesses understood the massive subsidy potential and realised they could use the blind ignorance of the green campaign to help them secure a very large slice of it. And all the while sitting very comfortably on the moral high ground. (Well done the eco warriors that helped to make that happen) At some point in the future wind power could be useful but by then all the productive sites will be covered with the current hugely inefficient ones. Most of them will not be working by then so will be removed and scrapped. The same businesses will then make a lot more money all over again. The magnitude of this waste is hard to put into words.

 

[EddieM]

need to put serious investment into fusion. Its only 10 years away as it has been for the last 30 years.