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Greener Energy
laser_jock99:
Now that the price of gas & electric is soaring I also see that the Goverment are now considering re-opening some coal mines (that the wonderfull Maggie Thatcher once had closed). Marvellous eh!
hobbit:
I guess the military will have to find a chameleon paint that changes according to the background conditions, that way no one will see them :lol:
WishIhadaLandy:
I think wind farms are the way forward.
People say that they are ugly and noisy, well "beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" ( I think they look pretty cool) and i walked all the way round a massive wind farm in wales and the people who say they are really noisy are talking out of their backsides, you could barely hear them 50 yards away and it isn't even an unpleasent noise!!
rollazuki:
I heard a rumour that if you check out the expected life of a wind turbine, check out the enviro damage it costs to make one, then check out the amount of polution it saves, then the figures dont really add up, and they arent really 'all that' green.
Cant confirm 100% if this is correct, but Im sure someone out there will have an opinion :?
Sharpshooter:
I am not biased because i work in a Nuclear Power Station. But the amout of Wind generators needed to make the same amount of power, is rediculous.
1 steam turbine produces on average 4oo meggawatts.
1 wind turbine produces 750 kilowatts on a good day.
Which means you need more than 50 wind turbines to do the same job.
They cost between £300,000-500,000 each.
Are very unreliable.
I dont fancy losing the south of england to a wind farm. And im sure with 200 wind turbines you would hear it from 50 yards away.
BUT this is only my opinion.
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