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Windfarms
They are ugly and I believe I have read a mixed view on the efficiency they provide. It seems areas that gain most from them are either large land plots which do not affect the people who live by them or they are out to sea. New Zealand seems to use a few- Palmerston North seems to have some. Maybe a look at the NZ energy resources website may help? I don't know but a look at areas which have invested in them may yield some further idea.
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windfarms
I don't suppose anyone watched The BBC News tonight? They showed the latest windfarm that has opened, I believe in Scotland. They are saying in order to supply enough electricity for The UK they need 600 the same size which would amount to a land plot the size of Wales.
Looking at them and seeing this was thought provoking especially as by chance this evening I met an old friend who is an engineer for a company that makes machinary to centrifuge (?spelling) sewerage (possible spelling problem again) across the UK. I think for the first time in 3 or so years I actually listened to what he said about the process. I don't mean to sound shallow, its just not the nicest thoughts that are provoked when one mentions sewerage.I think he was quite suprised to find my interest for obvious reasons. Anyway, does anyone know that the end product is a dry, odourless fertiliser? Well, yes, I sort of did. What I didn't realise is that this is virtually thrown away into landfills because it is copious. It sells for virtual peanuts to farmers as organic fertiliser but the volume created out weighs the demand. In Scotland they have been using it to generate powerstations to make electricity but the EU have said they can't unless it is fired up to 300 degrees C to incinerate it. That is no good if you want to 'slow burn' to generate electricity. How stupid are we? Its our waste, our end product and it makes perfect sense to use it for something like this.
I'd rather invest in finding an emissionable way of using it to do something like that than to see acres of land filled up with those awful whirly things going on and on in banal infinity.
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