Plans to make the world’s largest wind turbines in Britain, creating 2,000 jobs, have been put in jeopardy because of faltering demand and technical problems. Continue reading
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Shikha Dalmia: Just Because Windmills Don’t Cause Global Warming Doesn’t Mean They Don’t Suck
We know that: windfarms ruined the ocean view of late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Cape Cod home; are shredding birds to smithereens like carrots in a Cuisinart; and are too intermittent and unreliable as a stand-along energy source and usually needs back up by awful fossil fuel sources. But do they also cause global warming? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Climate Change
Tagged climate hysteria, weather superstition, Wind power, wind turbines
Wind turbine creates water from thin air
Wind turbines have long produced renewable energy but a French engineering firm has discovered another eco-purpose for the towering structures. Continue reading
Britain’s hibernating bats avoid deadly fungus killing their US cousins
Curious. There’s great panic over the loss of bats to an epidemic but the carnage caused by aerial cuisinarts, not so much. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Endang. Species
Tagged aerial cuisinarts, bats, white-nose syndrome, Wind power, wind turbines
The National Trust and English Heritage taking legal action against a wind farm
English Heritage and the National Trust have launched a rare legal challenge to a scheme to install four large wind turbines near a “treasured” Elizabethan garden Continue reading
Tide turns in favour of wave power instead of wind farms
VOTERS in Scotland appear to be turning away from wind farms, a new survey has shown, in a blow to the Scottish Government’s renewable ambitions. Continue reading
UK and US ink floating wind turbine alliance
So, we have a number of engineers among regular readers, any care to comment on the likely durability/longevity of water-borne aerial cuisinarts? Perhaps insurance industry readers would care to comment on risk coverage? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Tagged energy subsidies, government subsidies, Wind power, wind turbines
Does Donald Trump have a point on renewables?
Does Trump have a point in saying wind farms will destroy tourism? Or will his own interests actually destroy the campaign against renewables, asks Dani Garavelli Continue reading
Ben Pile: Windy Waffle
Today sees the launch of the UK’s National Oppostion to Windfarms (NOW). Continue reading
Setback for UK wind industry as Doosan scraps investment plans
Korean company blames deteriorating confidence for decision to suspend project that would have created 1,700 jobs Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Tagged energy subsidies, government subsidies, Wind power, wind turbines
Sherri Lange: Health Effects of Windpower on Residences: Canadian Debate Update
Industrial wind turbines in human habitats are becoming increasingly controversial and subject to environmental laws and restrictions. Continue reading
Windfarms do not cause long-term damage to bird populations, study finds
A large majority of birds can co-exist or thrive with operating windfarms, but some species are harmed during construction Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Tagged energy infrastructure, energy subsidies, government subsidies, Wind power, wind turbines
Here’s an idea I hadn’t seen um, floated before
Could this blow away the wind farm industry? Airborne power generator to produce energy at 1,000 feet Continue reading
Lone turbines spark ‘feeding frenzy’ for taxpayer handouts
HUNDREDS of single wind farm turbine applications are being lodged in Scotland in a “feeding frenzy” for subsidies, which are at risk of escaping proper scrutiny in the planning system, experts have warned. Continue reading
The Duke of York puts the wind up turbine opposers
The Duke of Edinburgh has criticised onshore wind farms as “absolutely useless”, while the Prince of Wales is known to believe that they are a “horrendous blot on the landscape”. Backers of the huge turbines can, however, turn to the Duke of York for support. Continue reading
Scotland: Conservative Rejection Of Wind Policy Growing
A leading Scottish Conservative attacked his party colleagues in the UK Government for letting the Lib Dems “dictate” energy policy on wind farms. Continue reading
New wind tower guidelines aim to lower bird deaths
The Obama administration offered new guidance Friday on where wind farms should be located to reduce the number of bird deaths while promoting increased use of wind power. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Tagged aerial cuisinarts, wildlife slaughter, Wind power, wind turbines
Neighbors Win Court Round Over Wind Farm Noise
A legal petition aimed at reinstating a state rule for limiting noise at a controversial wind farm in Maine can proceed, a judge ruled on Friday, denying a motion from the farm’s developer, Fox Islands Wind, for dismissal. Continue reading
Wind farms pose risk to coastline, officials warn
Britain’s coastlines are in danger from offshore wind farms, a government report has warned. Continue reading
