Wind Turbine

I've got a wind turbine

 

Yes @Zigs I recall you posting pictures, and it provides you with all your electricity if I remember that right too.

 

Just a back up for the solar panels, chances are if the sun's not out then the winds blowing

 

There's a wind farm on the hill behind this village. You can't see them from the village but you can from other places.
I don't find them such an eyesore as the pylons and electric wires criss-crossing the countryside, but they do make an awful noise as they swish around, and I haven't seen any red kites on the hill since they've been erected :(

There are 15 (I think) altogether, and another 20 or so have been approved for the adjacent mountain.
Farmers also have smaller ones on many farms now, so wherever you look you can see them.

 

Read today that while there was much crowing about Scotland producing more electricity than the UK's requirements on 7th August, it was not made quite so public that the producers were paid £3,137,000 "compensation" on 1 DAY to switch turbines OFF. Watch out everybody our bills for electricity will be rocketing even further to pay for these type of occurrences. This is the highest payment made for 1 day which tops what the producers got paid for a single day last October which was also over £3,000,000.

 

Interesting @shiney. From personal experience I am extremely skeptical about any figures produced by the Wind Energy Database unfortunately. I wonder if they have also collated the accurate figures as to just how much the manufacture, transporting (often from overseas) and erecting of these turbines plus ancillary works to the sites, eg the gargantuan amounts of concrete in the region of 1000 tonnes per turbine to make a stable bases, added to CO2 emissions?
I hope that I am wrong and history will be able to prove that this type of renewable energy has indeed gone towards the well being of our planet. I'll be dead and buried long before, if ever, anything can be proven 1 way or the other, all I do know is those landowners who have wind turbines on their land are as happy as pigs in clover whether or not they are contributing to making our world a better place and have scant regard for those unfortunate enough to live close enough to be affected.

 

We have 4 scattered across the hill now, don`t know if more to come, I assume they have to be connected or something before being allowed to "spin" as apart from the odd slow movement now`t happening.

 

I very much agree with your sentiments @shiney, it is the sly way that less than scrupulous companies and individuals have jumped on the gravy train of renewables and at the same time are heralded by some as planet savers that sticks in my craw!
If compensating companies/individuals with £3 million plus for 1 day to not produce wasn't bad enough I heard last night from an "expert" (he wouldn't call himself as such but was chosen to advice Donald Trump over his fight re a proposed wind farm so knows a great deal) that on the date in question (7th August) it was so incredibly windy that many of the compensated turbines would have had to be shut down for safety reasons. Talk about hitting the jackpot, huge compensation when they wouldn't have been able to operate!

 

I used to be a fan of these things until the truth about their costs and payments became clearer.
The public are getting ripped off under the pretence that these things are great for the enviroment.
Theyre spreading like a cancer across our countryside almost unchecked and in my region the Scottish Borders the power mad SNP are giving them unlimited planning permission despite local and council objections.

 

One of my friends worked in Kirkcaldy (Scotland) manufacturing wind turbine blades, He was paid off at short notice and the factory closed, Six months later wind turbine blades were arriving in Scotland manufactured in the Netherlands, shipped over here then a long load lorry taking them to site, His company had trained workers from the Netherlands how to manufacture fibre glass blades,
Some of the ex workers now work in the Netherlands repairing and maintaining the blades, in Europe all Rope work stuff at height
The Scottish Government sanctioned all of this WHY ?
He and all the others were on UK minimum wage, yet higher wage earners in The Netherlands, could manufacture, then transport by sea and slow extra length lorries to sites within a mile of his ex work place ?
They are an eyesore, the noise is unbelievable constant whop whop whop and not yet mentioned the flickering light as they go on and on blocking the daylight
If it is windy they can not run, if their is no wind they can not turn, so we turn to Solar power
very good unless it is dark,
SNP have got rid of our last coal fired power station, causing grief to thousands of people in the area, No more power workers, to buy papers, cigarettes, sandwiches, juice, lunches, burgers, from the local vans, bus fares taken to get to work, and now on Housing Benefit, unemployment benefit, Child tax credits, JSA
Worse than that they now import and pay for electrickery from ENGERLAND their sworn enemy

The SNP have achieved their low footprint, Yes out of Scotland and into ENGERLAND Thousands of footprints out of the place

Sturgeon, Today I have a signed piece of paper from Germany
Sturgeon, Today I have full appreciation from Putin to deny the use of Trident
Sturgeon, Today as our last oil rig closes we will be totally self sufficient, at planting potatoes and oats

Jack McH