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"The trouble with wind farms is that they have a very large spatial footprint for a piddling little bit of electricity. You would need 8oo turbines to produce the output of a coal-fired power station."
Sir Martin Holgate, Chief Scientist at the Department of the Environment of the British Government - October 2004
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- Counter Rotation-Are modern wind collectors efficient?
- David Bellamy on Climate Change
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- Interactive Offshore Map to 2050
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- Living with Turbines
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- Materials Required for the Land-Based Wind Turbine Industry From 2010 Through 2030 Scientific Investigations
- Noise – Dick Bowdler Accoustician
- Noise – National Physics Laboratory
- Non illigitamus Carborundum
- Perceptions of Wind Farms
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- Rare Earth Elements – World Resources
- Report to the House of Lords
- Rupert Soames speech to Scottish Government
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- SNH Map of Scottish Wind Farms 2013
- Spain's Green Energy Disaster
- Sustainable Energy-without Hot Air by David MacKay
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- The Truth of Climate Data
- The Visual Issue
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- Wind Farm Action Group
- Wind Farm data (Variable Pitch)
- Wind Farm Noise effect on Health – Revision
- Wind Farm Victims
- Wind inceases CO2
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- Wind Turbines, The Facts by The Scientific Alliance
- Wind Watch World News
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- Winds of Justice
- Worth the Candle – Exec Summary
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- 2000 attend Weshpool Rally
- Alan Sloman's Big Walk
- Altt Duine Wind Farm
- AWED
- Big Pond
- Caithness Windfarms Information Forum
- Cartoons by Josh
- Chris Townsend Outdoors
- Climate Lessons
- Communities against Turbines – Scotland
- Concerned about Wind Turbines
- Donna Laframboise – NOconsensus.org
- Donna Quixote – Dougal's country cousin
- Fenbeagle
- Germany's Bio-Energy Villages
- Go-Petition on Windfarmaction
- Hiome made renewable
- Ideas on Wind-a personal view
- Illwind on Facebook
- It's in the Wind
- John Droz Energy Presentation
- John Muir Trust
- Little Raith Wind Farm
- Marine and Offshore Renewables Newsletter
- McAlisterium on Scottish Elections
- Non illigitamus Carborundum
- Protect Wild Scotland
- PV Solar Information
- Scotland against Spin
- Scottish Climate and Energy Forum
- Scottish Wild Land Group
- South West Wind Action Group
- Stop Smart Meters
- Stuart Crawford-Money or Energy?
- Stuart Young Visualisations
- The War of the Whirls
- UK Energy App for iPhone
- Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
- West Virginia Highlands Voice
- Wind Energy's Absurd
- Windbyte
- Windmills Everywhere – an OTT viewpoint
- Winter in Strathglass by Gavin Macrae
Stats
Turbine Tales
Turbine Truths
- Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
- Amplitude Modulation
- Bird Deaths under reported
- Blimps
- Braes of Doune Eco Vandalism
- Bruce Macphearson Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise Study
- Counter Rotation-Are modern wind collectors efficient?
- David Bellamy on Climate Change
- Dick and Jane Talk Wind Power
- Energy Ghosts
- European Platform Against Wind Farms
- Fighting Wind Farms
- Global Wind Energy – The Human Impact
- Graham Martin's Raptor Collisions
- Gridwatch
- Health Concerns – US report
- Infrasound and Low frequency noise
- Interactive Offshore Map to 2050
- John Droz Energy Presentation
- John Muir Trust Report
- Living with Turbines
- Low Frequency Noise
- Marine Impact of Turbines
- Materials Required for the Land-Based Wind Turbine Industry From 2010 Through 2030 Scientific Investigations
- Noise – Dick Bowdler Accoustician
- Noise – National Physics Laboratory
- Non illigitamus Carborundum
- Perceptions of Wind Farms
- Property Prices, The Truth
- Rare Earth Elements – World Resources
- Report to the House of Lords
- Rupert Soames speech to Scottish Government
- Safety of Wind Systems
- Save the Eagles International
- Scotland's Geothermal Potential
- SNH Map of Scottish Wind Farms 2013
- Spain's Green Energy Disaster
- Sustainable Energy-without Hot Air by David MacKay
- The Selby Booklet
- The Skeptic's Handbook
- The Society of Wind Vigilance
- The Truth of Climate Data
- The Visual Issue
- Tourism – Blue Seas Green Energy
- VisitScotlandWindFarms
- Wind Farm Action Group
- Wind Farm data (Variable Pitch)
- Wind Farm Noise effect on Health – Revision
- Wind Farm Victims
- Wind inceases CO2
- Wind Turbine Property Losses
- Wind Turbines, The Facts by The Scientific Alliance
- Wind Watch World News
- Windfarm traffic
- Winds of Justice
- Worth the Candle – Exec Summary
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Alex Salmond under fire for Cuckoo Plans on Renewables
The Scotsman has reported that Alex Salmond’s Plans for 100% Renewables has been suggested as not only unattainable but also undesirable. Scotsman Report 29.04.11 Headlines in the Scotsman on the 28th were “Not so Bonnie Scotland” and questionned whether Scotland’s 2020 green … Continue reading
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Fire Front
Denise Davis of the Druimba-sayno campiagn had a worrying night after a massive fire which came within seventy metres of her home. Some ten sq miles of the North Balmacaan Estate from Loch Gorm, the local SSI and right up … Continue reading
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Draft Supplementary Guidance Onshore Wind – Consultation
We have recently received notification of a Draft Supplementary Guidance to Onshore Wind to go as an addendum to the 2006 Highland Plan, Energy. This looks suspiciously like that put to and passed by councillors of Highland Council in October … Continue reading
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The lights are going out-sooner than later
Well the idiots are really running the asylum! Due to the higher use of coal last winter, because the wind wasn’t blowing and it was cold, (that seemed to have surprised the Climate Scientists) and the much trumpeted Renewables failure to … Continue reading
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The Canadian Experience
In this island of ours we can sometimes be extremely insular but wind farms stride across the Globe providing the same angst and pain wherever they go. A film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival was extremely apposite to this … Continue reading
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The Loch Ness ring of steel
I won’t even try to compete with Alan’s information so I will just direct you to http://www.alansloman.blogspot.com Read what those that come and visit Scotland have to say! Druim Ba Action Group needs your support. The developers PR company has … Continue reading
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Is the Law our Final Protection?
I was interested to find an article from 2008 on the “This is Devon” website describing the scale of disruption when the turbines arrive . What really shocked me was the end of the article describing the legal fight by … Continue reading
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The Hydrogen Fuel Cell – Tomorrow’s answer?
This is a short video to educate you to where some believe the future lies. In this case a small airfield in the UK and a man in a shed. Or at least some clever scientists in a shed!
Posted in Technical, The Future of Transport
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The Future of Electricity – some thoughts
Whether Renewables, Nuclear or some other form of power generation provides our future energy needs, the important element is that it should be industry and consumer lead and not driven by political considerations and aspirations cloaked in a mantra of Climate Change … Continue reading
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Irish Sea Eagle Killed by Turbine
What is so amazing is that it was obvious that it was going to happen and yet the RSPB still support the construction of Wind Farms. Two links here which hopefully you will find informative. The first is to the … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism, Wind farms
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New Tidal Generation
Future for Scotland is the manufacture of wave/tidal? Why have the first two come from outside Scotland. Simple. The descision is taken in London, not Edinburgh. Deltastream tidal energy device Separately, Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has secured an agreement for … Continue reading
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How high is 500ft?
The Druim Ba Proposed Wind Farm is projected to have the tallest turbines in Scotland. Key holed (!) into the Blairmore Forest they are just under 500ft tall. What height is 500 ft? Ask anyone and you get a shrug. So … Continue reading
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