Wind Power Myths
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the wind power myth exploded?
See this report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7546466.stm
Seems to me that the wind turbines are just an expensive and inefficient means of producing electricity which if this report is true will use more carbon that it will ever repay in the lifetime of the machine. As most of the European ones are produced in Germany this also includes the transport costs to deliver.
Seems to me that the EU directive on CO2 emissions is more for the German production of these unsightly beasts than anything to do with saving the planet.
Wind power even if it can repay the carbon emissions of turbine construction isn’t reliable enough to actually take over from fossil fuels on a large scale.
The whole point of wind and ground based solar is that they make people think they are doing something to help the environment and replace fossil fuels without actually replacing them or solving our CO2 problem. But making people think that wind and solar are solutions when they are not means that people become willing to reject nuclear power which is a solution (those who realise that wind and ground based solar are essentially useless tend not to be anti-nuclear).
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