The Towering Spin-Lie About Wind Generated Power

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:23:36 +0200

Shaz you're a gem - thanks v. much.

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:37:46 +0200

shall post the link on the site http://www.saveyourregionalpark.com
thanks

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:40:53 +0200

Thanks for that Shaz, can you email them this link?
Yes there is always the need for a constant electicity stream on the National Grid; it won't tolerate more than 5% fluctuation in power supply - or there would be very frequent blackouts nationwide.

It's not so much that there has to be a back up of fully running electricity supply from the fossil fuel power stations, because when the wind is blowing the wind turbines do of course save electricity; rather the giant furnaces that produce the steam to drive the electicity-producing turbines in the conventional power stations must be kept stoked up to the max ( with coal/oil/gas ) in order to be ready for the turbines to be smooth out the big variations in power from the wind farm supply. So in effect there's no point having them in the first place. It's one big giant scam and a lie!

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:48:31 +0200

You are preaching to the converted here. I used to think that windpower was the answer to all our needs a safe green alternative then i began to read about them ..... they are a political/media hype. They are expensive, subsidies alone put up all of our electricity costs... they cant work when theres no wind or when there is too much wind ( grid overload. Building these monstrosities wont result in the closure of one nuclear or coal powerstation - the wind factories need these as back up.
Wind farms imply nice people freindly methods of production, rural non-industrial ... play with the language these things are industrial blots on the landscape they are WIND FACTORIES.
Currently we are fighting the construction of a massive wind factory in a regional park, clyde muirsheil park one of the last great wilderness' on the west coast of scotland. We are NOT NIMBY's there are already wind factories on a smaller scale to the S/W of the town. But this is an abomination.

Please google LWFAG or Ladymoor Wind Farm and have a look at what they have planned for here. The Language that Wind Hydrogen use in their publicity is very very suspect and negates to mention that the technology itself is nothing more than a way of extracting money through subsidies and from the futures market in the form of ROC's.

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:22:31 +0200

Yes Steph, now let's go for it, in exposing the lies, hypocrisy and corruption!

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:32:54 +0200

Britain - the best democracy money can buy!

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:33:18 +0200

Come join the New Dadaists, Jumper.

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:59:21 +0200

Plus of course there is the subject that all these wind farms are creating an effect on the Earth's rotation.

Remember learning about Newtons laws at school???
Remember the one about for every action there is an equal & opposite reaction...

For every wind turbine being hit by the wind, the wind is trying to push the turbine forward, but because it is anchored to the earth it is prevented from so doing and turns instead. However not all of that energy is converted into rotational energy, some of it does travel down to the ground and has a minute effect on the rotational speed of the earth.

Eventually we will reach the point where sufficient wind turbines will have a combined effect on the earths rotation - slowing it down. This will make the duration of a day longer than 24 hours - it will also have the effect of exposing each part of the earth's surface to the sun for longer each day and cause a further increase in global warming.

On the plus side however this will also create hotter days and colder nights which in turn will create more winds around the coastlines thus providing more chances of windfarms actually working efficiently !!!

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:56:14 +0200

I think the professor and many like him are simply stating the laws of physics and scientific facts, Dr Dark. Like one plus one usually makes two - unless you are living in an alternative universe?

The Greek Islands either have a constant full-on back-up from conventional fossil fuel power stations or they have frequent power cuts when the wind drops. Which would you prefer Darky?

Ps I agree he has a silly name, but there again what about a Dr Dark, talking about electricity supply?? ;)

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:31:45 +0200

I've been on Greek islands that had wind power generators producing a reasonable percentage of their power. Nobody had a bad word to say about them, but in the UK where it is very windy we have a lot of bulloughs printed in the press to convince us we want to glow in the dark... Suspicious or what?

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:28:17 +0200

And that Professor Bullough has a longer name than he needs. Who owns him, eh?

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:27:24 +0200

A lot more spelling mistakes than your usual none at all Mike. Stressy? Switch on the poly-thingy-scope...

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:56:56 +0200

I don't think we are being given the info facts about the real energy choices we have Denny - it's being blurred by big business interests. If Blair promotes new nuclear, he will try to convince us its the "only realistic alternative" . In other words it's the best money-making deal for him personally, backhanders-wise.

We may be able to self-sustain from fossil fuel power stations with C02 cleaning accessories for hundreds of years yet for all we are being told, by which time the technology may well be in place for totally safe nuclear fusion plants that run off seawater.

But windpower is definitely a pretty unequivocal "forget it" until the day the wind blows at gale force constantly.

This whole energy/water saving thing is about brain-washing the public into accepting higher utility bills and even more fatcat profits.

In response to:Towers of Tripe

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:25:29 +0200

Hmmmmm, would you advocate nuclear power as a green alternative?