Quote Originally Posted by creaky View Post
Not sure myself about the effectiveness of these eyesores..but last winter we had weeks of very cold weather and very little wind, most of the windgenerators i could see ( and i can see alot from the N wales coast) were stationary , so where was the electricity coming from to keep every one warm....Not wind obviously. IMO its just not reliable enough.
The power was coming from the oil and coal stations which are needed to mirror EVERY bit of power produced by turbines. You are correct, of course. Our coldest conditions generally coincide with no wind and, indeed, wind speeds have been forecast to reduce over the next 40 years.

I find the "we have to do something" argument to be quite sad. It's aimed at those of us who dislike wind power as though we were not concerned about the climate. I am, I just KNOW that wind power isn't the way forward and huge amounts of money are being spent to subsidise it and make profits for multinationals when that money could be being used to properly research and develop a solution.