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Originally Posted by gfilmsuk  Wind Farms are just another money-making scam at the expense of our environment.
Quote; According to new industry figures, a typical 2 megawatt (2MW) turbine can now generate power worth £200,000 on the wholesale markets - plus another £300,000 of subsidy from taxpayers.
Since such turbines cost around £2m to build and last for 20 or more years, it means they can pay for themselves in just 4-5 years and then produce nothing but profit; unquote. Read the full article here: Wind farms turn huge profit with help of subsidies - Times Online
Wind turbines are nothing more than highly efficient profit generators, nothing to do with electricity.
I'm a NIMBY and proud of it!
Dave |
I don't pay any attention to newspapers anymore I have lost count of the number of wildlife related articles that have got even the most basic facts wrong - you have to assume that they are getting facts wrong all over the place.
So what you are saying is that companies that look to produce electricity shouldn't work to try to get a profit that might allow and that wind turbines don't produce any electricity since that's not what they were put there for.....
You better make sure you never choose to get green energy or shock horror it might come from renewable infinite resources like the wind......
much better to choose a power source that can poison a significant portion of the world in a terrorist incident or worse human or computer error- or one based entirely on a resource that will run out and potentially cause more wars - oh or might cause global warming - or one based felling rainforests or clearing peat bogs or stripping out set aside or pushing up the world's price of food stuffs - Yes I can see how that's much more satisfactory........