The problem is officialdom, who have a very poor understanding or knowledge of generation. This includes the government, and local councils tend to be more zealous.
Trying to get the message to officaldom that wind generators are not the same as conventional for practical and technical reasons and cannot replace conventional generators, and the false message that they are cheap is going to take some overcoming.
The only people who benefit are the wind farm owners who gett well paid for their second rate electricity.
The media is no help as they are as cluless, and their phrases like enormous machines or giant generators when in fact they are puny devices compared to 'proper' generators especially given their very low availability figures circa 20% for on shore wind.
This I cannot see changing until there is a dominant political party who do not support renewables.
It may be a long wait.
The other message that CO2 is not what controls climate is going to be even harder to get across to those who make decisons such as this?
We stand to lose so many treasures if all these "green" developments go ahead. We will never recover what is lost. They will have a lasting impact on our landscapes and quite what happens when they come to the end of their short lives is shrouded in the veils of misty optimism that is also suggesting that the expected lifespan is 40 years.
The problem is officialdom, who have a very poor understanding or knowledge of generation. This includes the government, and local councils tend to be more zealous.
Trying to get the message to officaldom that wind generators are not the same as conventional for practical and technical reasons and cannot replace conventional generators, and the false message that they are cheap is going to take some overcoming.
The only people who benefit are the wind farm owners who gett well paid for their second rate electricity.
The media is no help as they are as cluless, and their phrases like enormous machines or giant generators when in fact they are puny devices compared to 'proper' generators especially given their very low availability figures circa 20% for on shore wind.
This I cannot see changing until there is a dominant political party who do not support renewables.
It may be a long wait.
The other message that CO2 is not what controls climate is going to be even harder to get across to those who make decisons such as this?
Thank you for your comment.
We stand to lose so many treasures if all these "green" developments go ahead. We will never recover what is lost. They will have a lasting impact on our landscapes and quite what happens when they come to the end of their short lives is shrouded in the veils of misty optimism that is also suggesting that the expected lifespan is 40 years.
Excellent article, Annie. Thank you!
Thank you Minnie