On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
As a renewable energy source, I understand that wind mills are not the answer; the cost of maintaining them has lead to a great number being abandoned [1] -- and yes, this is just a quick google, I'm not going to verify it's correctness or otherwise, please don't ask me to.
[1] http://www.naturalnews.com/034234_wind_turbines_abandoned.html
"Who in their right mind would want any of the new generation of turbines — under EU plans, the turbines will be nearly 1,000ft tall (that’s six times the height of Nelson’s Column) — rusting away in their backyard?" Have you ever have seen 30 years old cars rusting away in someone's backyard? Just wonder why we still build, sell and buy cars. http://ramblingsdc.net/Australia/WindProblems.html "In Esperance, WA for example, small, old, out-dated turbines have been replaced with bigger, newer ones; the capacity of the new wind farms (5600 kW) is much greater than the old one (360 kW). It's called progress!" Regards Peter