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| Here's an Irish site that suggests your statistics are wrong - "AN ILL WIND - AN OBJECTION AGAINST WINDFARMS IN IRELAND" http://www.geocities.com/nigbarnes/ "The electricity produced by windfarms is significant. FALSE. A glance at the table summarising power outputs internationally shows how pathetically small this contribution is. This amount will gradually grind to a halt in the face of growing adverse public opinion, and the dwindling of available sites (it is already difficult to get permits in Germany). The small amounts of electricity produced is illustrated by the fact that it would take 1904 new 750kW wind turbines operating at 28% capacity factor to produce as much electricity as one 500MW gas-fired combined cycle base-load generating plant with an 80% capacity factor." Another site - talking about W. Denmark "During 2003, the annual production of renewable energy (mainly wind power) in the region was numerically equivalent to about 20.7% of power demand (Bülow, 2004a) (i.e. similar to UK aspirations for 2020). However, at its times of generation, about 84% of the wind power was surplus to local demand (White, 2004; Sharman, 2004) and had to be exported to the much larger power systems of Norway, Sweden and/or Germany, primarily to maintain stability of frequency and voltage in the Danish grid. <b>This implies that over the period of 2003 under 4% of the region's demand for electrical power was directly provided by wind resources</b>, the bulk of requirements being met by carbon-emitting central and local CHP generators, some of which operated sub-optimally as backup for the wind power for much of the time. http://www.dartdorset.org/West[...]20lessons%20for%20the%20UK.pdf Here are plenty of links by those who don't agree with your views of wind farms - http://www.dartdorset.org/html/links.html including one to a report - "Danish wind boss admits: Wind-power hasn't cut Denmark's CO2 emissions." Reply | with quote | Posted by smallblueplanet 2nd January 2005ce 14:10 In reply to: Re: Devastation in pictures (FourWinds) |
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