on 21-12-2014 09:49 AM
on 21-12-2014 09:57 AM
Fantastic news!
Hope that means we can get on and try to catch up with the rest of the world on renewable energy generation:
"The figures, released today (8 December) by WWF Scotland, reveal that wind turbines generated approximately 812,890MWh of electricity to the National Grid in November, meeting the electricity demands of 107% of Scottish households. "
http://www.edie.net/news/6/Scotland-wind-power-generation-renewable-energy-statistics-2015/
on 21-12-2014 10:04 AM
on 21-12-2014 12:21 PM
What a feeble excuse to form some ANTI- this or that commitee and expect donations and tax exsemptions.
What about the people who live close to a major Airport or in the path of a landing strip? They have to get used to the noise or move elsewhere.
No Governement will move an Airport just because someone complains about it.
Erica
on 21-12-2014 12:31 PM
on 21-12-2014 12:32 PM
on 21-12-2014 01:43 PM
@aps1080 wrote:
About time someone seriously made Australia look at the Nuclear option.
I am sure you would be happy to live next to nuclear powerstation, or next to the waste dump. By the way, can you point me to any wind turbines being in previously pristine wilderness that had to be bulldozed? All those I have seen are on farmland, taking small space and the cows are happily grazing around them as they did before.
on 21-12-2014 01:49 PM
Not sure the people in Japan are happy about there Nuclear power Station.
I would be horrified to see one in Australia, where you going to dump the waste, The Barrier Reef
21-12-2014 01:59 PM - edited 21-12-2014 02:01 PM
We have plenty of places it can be dumped. We did the damn stuff out of the ground.
I'd live next to a Nuclear Power station. Dumps would never be build near people anyway and
to be honest, why would we need to build a Nuclear plant right next door ?????
The only reason the Greens oppose Nuclear is ideological, anti nuke, they can't get past the Nuke aspect
even though it is greener, on line all the time when needed and not subject to the vagaries of the wind
and doesn't need another power station as back up when it isn't generating.
Super
The fact is, if I wanted to build a factory on a cliff top of untouched land, the greens would be up in arms about it.
But putting up a whole load of wind farms is acceptable development.
And they are often built with huge subsidies.
on 21-12-2014 03:17 PM
@aps1080 wrote:And they are often built with huge subsidies.
Not as huge as the coal industry gets.
There is a bit of a difference between factory and wind turbine. It is also great little income earner for the farmer who allows them on their land.