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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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- 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: August 2011
Dava Moor – a sensitive site but we still want 43 turbines
James Welch, acting for energy company Infinergy, concedes that Dava Moor is a senstive site to build a wind farm. He has classed the area between medium and high. Two developers, Infinergy and Eurus, are applying to construct 43 turbines on … Continue reading
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Cuts Loom for on-shore Wind Farms in Subsidy switch
The Scotsman reports that the DECC has launched a review of tax-payer funded subsidies which may result in a 25% decline in income for on-shore wind farms to divert necessary funding to off-shore wind. If this goes ahead Scottish Power is … Continue reading
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£20million US Radar silences MOD Windfarm Objections
Orders for £20 million a shot radar have been agreed to deflect MOD objections to wind farms so allowing the DECC and Wind Farm Developers to access areas where in the past the MOD have had serious concerns as to … Continue reading
Posted in Political, Technical, Wind farms
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Renewable Lunacy!
Sir John Banham, Ex Director General of the CBI has some very forthright views on the lunacy of this Governments Race for Wind as he describes the effects of wind and solar on the Spanish economy and expresses grave concerns … Continue reading
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Germany calling!
This is a photograph of German wind farms. Note that these turbines are in fact much smaller than those now proposed for the majority of Scotland. This leads us to conclude that although Germany has many more turbines than the … Continue reading
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Don’t shoot all the Landowners!
Here is a very good article from Lord John Mackenzie, Earl of Cromartie and immediate Past President of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland. He is a supporter of several local Wind Farm objections including Druim Ba, Wind Farm Action Group, … Continue reading
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Copenhagen proposes new waste to energy plant
Can Energy creation ever be beautiful and acceptable? First requirement of energy is that it should be demand led and by preference produced near to where it is used. Copenhagen has come up with a pretty way out plan that … Continue reading
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Absurdity taken to new heights!
Huhne and Hendry float plans to shovel billions of pounds into the Irish Wind Industry. Another Telegraph story from Chris Booker. This is absurdity taken to new heights. In a real world Messrs Huhne and Hendry would have got their … Continue reading
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David Cameron’s father-in-law’s £350,000 annual bung?
Sir Reginald Sheffield, David Cameron’s father-in-law, last week admitted that he earns up to £350,000 from the wind farm on his Lincolnshire estate. Considering some fifty per cent of income is from surcharges on our electricity bills, that would suggest … Continue reading
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What a Gas!!!
I will simply let you read this report in it’s entirity. The Impact of Imort Dependancy and Wind Generation on UK Gas Demand and Security of Supply to 2012 by the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. I would suggest any … Continue reading
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The Small Turbine!
My first interest in wind turbines was the possibility of moving off grid and saving a shed load of money. Reality brought me down to earth as I worked out that I would about pay for the installation ten years … Continue reading
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“Wind farm Rape” of Scotland
Scots Tory MEP described wind farm developments as “the renewable rape of Scotland” at a public meeting in Ballantrae last week. Struan Stevenson said he believed this was an accurate description and warned landowners not to be sucked in by … Continue reading
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What is Renewable Energy?
In the UK, all political parties are committed to the principle of sustainable development, defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. The UK has an … Continue reading
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Turbine Blade Throw
For quite some time we have asked questions about safety zones around turbines partly from Ice Throw and partly from Blade Failure. The DECC,Scottish Renewables, Renewables UK and the Scottish Government have consistently declared there is little or no danger … Continue reading
Posted in Education Concerns, Technical, Wind farms
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Trump trumped
You may have noted that Donald trump is somewhat peeved by the application to instal eleven turbines off his multi million pound Golf Course investment. It will spoil his views, Never mind that he first built a twenty foot bund … Continue reading
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Let’s put a windturbine in the Skool Playground!
Talk about numpties. The latest ruse is to build wind turbines in school playgrounds. If the one at Raasay is anything to go by, it will soon by raining cogs and dogs. This turbine was placed right next to the access road … Continue reading
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