In response to the previous blog, if only it were as simple as that! The power from this development is destined for Cape Town, not the Overberg. Greytonian has also extensively researched the subject and come to the conclusion that these industrial wind farms (as opposed to small domestic or community projects) are an enormous con. Too many people just blindly accept the so-called facts put out by environmental lobbyists, and it is a sad fact of modern society that anyone who has the temerity to question 'the environmental establishment' is branded a heretic. So much for scientific honesty and integrity. Greytonian has briefly stated his views in the Greyton Sentinel, January 2010. It can be read at:
Greyton Sentinel January 2010
By the way another little advertised fact is that wind turbines
consume electricity from the grid just to keep going, and as a consequence they grind to a halt during a blackout - very handy.
Has anyone calculated the carbon cost of the two recent climate change conference farces?
Greytonian is, and always has been, despite being brought up in Cumbria, strongly in favour of clean and safe nuclear power. By the time that any residual nuclear waste might be a problem
Homo so-called
sapiens will have long destroyed this planet and moved on to wreck another place.
spotted the spoof - the pin is right on top of the Collins - meaning we can't see that windmill at least. They've got plenty of wind though.
ReplyDelete.
The accent understood now part French/Part Carlisle - hence the South Cumbria twang.
In fact though despite the respective tones of our blogs we are ‘on the same page’.
My efficiency notes explain why 150 x 2MW machines should be the equivalent of 100MW on average or maybe even less depending on demand, availability and grid accesss. So, unless there is a way of storing the energy, such as driving water up to a stored hydro-scheme the ‘efficiency’ drops even further.
Copenhagen? – yeah I have blogged somewhere on that subject too - don't start me off again....
Clean Safe Nuclear- I agree? I spent 30 years trying to make it so…. And also think that the waste should be reprocessed in Cumbria – 2 reasons:
1) I’d rather we did it than the French.
2) The whole damn thing started with that other Cumbrian – John Dalton – so we should finish it.
Solar and Nuclear should be the answer for SA