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Probably trying to offset the environmental damage of Teesside & the planned new potash mine !

 

 

Think it will take more than a few turbines to offset that! I doubt any of their senior executives live in the same area as their operations.?

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I live a mile from the sea on the holderness coastline just under Hornsea. Already a row of evenly spaced red lights from turbines offshore at night. Not popular.

But no one wants anything in their backyard.

 

Somewhere in USA is a large solar farm, the reflection is causing birds to get burnt and drop out the sky on fire.

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I live a mile from the sea on the holderness coastline just under Hornsea. Already a row of evenly spaced red lights from turbines offshore at night. Not popular.

But no one wants anything in their backyard.

 

Somewhere in USA is a large solar farm, the reflection is causing birds to get burnt and drop out the sky on fire.

 

Actually that happens with military radar installations here state side and outside

the continental US.

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We were at saltburn beach last week , with a good wind blowing i could see at least 4 turbines not working

 

 

You have to maintain equipment sometimes, no? Likewise turbines have gearboxes, generator etc that need to be taken out of service for inspection or repair. Conventional power stations likewise - boiler tube leaks, pump failures, fuel handling equipment, emissions control etc.

 

Sometimes renewable (and conventional) plant gets paid to reduce output because there is more electricity being produced in the local area than can be transported to where it is needed - but that is the fault of the system constraints of National Grid, not the wind farm owner.

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We have a load going up off the coast at Worthing in Sussex.

People are maoning about them, but none of the moaners are refusing to use electricity.

 

It's OK to have a Chinese funded nuclear plant 'anywhere else' but not near me.

 

The turbines may turn out to be inefficient (or not) it all depends on which political stats you chose to believe.

 

If you want leccy we need to make it somehow. At least the turbines dont leave a radioactive legacy for the next 200 generations to deal with.

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