Biggest wind farm

[Busy Daddy]

Suposedly the worlds biggest offshore windfarm gets the go ahead of the hornsea coastline , just down the coast from the 300mw biomass boiler in teeside

What next , all of north yorkshire under 1 big solar panel

[Pete Mctree]

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

[TIMON]

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.?

[Goaty]

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.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Goaty

[peatff]

We were at Chapel St Leonard a couple of weeks ago and the wind farm off shore there has expanded since last time we were there. They ought to do boat trips out to them.

[easy-lift guy]

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.

easy-lift guy

[Busy Daddy]

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

[djbobbins]

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.

[Shane]

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.

[matelot]

I'd rather have wind power than import gas from the like of Qatar and Saudi.... Using gas and oil etc is basically like giving ISIS guns and bullets...

 

I understand that no fishing is allowed amongst the wind turbines and sea life really benefits.