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Title: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: omega3000 on 08 May 2012, 15:26:05
 ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-17990930
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: Plomien on 08 May 2012, 15:47:03
Joy, more turbines to spoil my view
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: bored bigyin54 on 08 May 2012, 15:47:16
not for me dont live near there ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: Varche on 08 May 2012, 16:33:11
The Victorian engineers would be turning in their graves.

"three years to construct and have a lifetime of 25 years,"

It is a pylon with a blade and a magneto for goodness sake. In 25 years will they blow them up and put up a new one in its place. That one expected to last 15 years????
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: omega3000 on 08 May 2012, 17:22:35
not for me dont live near there ;D ;D ;D

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly  ::)
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: bored bigyin54 on 08 May 2012, 17:31:00
not for me dont live near there ;D ;D ;D

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly  ::)
no chance it will go up like allways ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: omega3000 on 08 May 2012, 17:43:15
not for me dont live near there ;D ;D ;D

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly  ::)
no chance it will go up like allways ;D ;D

I dunno ,  250MW from 76 turbines should make some difference  :o
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: Nickbat on 08 May 2012, 19:06:08
not for me dont live near there ;D ;D ;D

On the plus side your electric bills should come down


 Allegedly  ::)
no chance it will go up like allways ;D ;D

I dunno ,  250MW from 76 turbines should make some difference  :o

Unless it's not windy, in which case their output will be the square root of f.a.  ;D ::) ::)
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: Rods2 on 08 May 2012, 22:18:19
Most turbines struggle to reach 30% of their rated output per year. Just think of all of those conventional power stations efficiently sitting on tickover, to provide power between the gusts of wind.

When in a few years you are having power black outs during the winter, where the UK has a calm high pressure, with very cold air straight from the Arctic and the remaining backup power stations can't cope with demand, I expect you will be saying I'm glad the EU made us get rid of all of our coal fired power stations and they have replaced them (at great expense on our electricity bills) with these useful wind turbines.  :D :D :D :D :D

There is an EU directive that coal fired power stations, must use CO2 removal technologies by 2015 or be phased out, the nuclear power stations that are meant to replace them will not be ready until at least 2020, if ever.  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: scimmy_man on 08 May 2012, 22:23:27
a few hydro electric stations would help when its not blowing,

you have loads of vallys to flood dontya?
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: Varche on 08 May 2012, 22:35:18
Most turbines struggle to reach 30% of their rated output per year. Just think of all of those conventional power stations efficiently sitting on tickover, to provide power between the gusts of wind.

When in a few years you are having power black outs during the winter, where the UK has a calm high pressure, with very cold air straight from the Arctic and the remaining backup power stations can't cope with demand, I expect you will be saying I'm glad the EU made us get rid of all of our coal fired power stations and they have replaced them (at great expense on our electricity bills) with these useful wind turbines.  :D :D :D :D :D

There is an EU directive that coal fired power stations, must use CO2 removal technologies by 2015 or be phased out, the nuclear power stations that are meant to replace them will not be ready until at least 2020, if ever.  :o :o :o

Worry ye not. The shortfall will be made up by using GAS powered stations. Plenty of cheap and reliable gas from our friends in Russia. Yo Putin.   :y
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: aaronjb on 08 May 2012, 22:37:57
a few hydro electric stations would help when its not blowing,

you have loads of vallys to flood dontya?
Yeah - it's about time we did something useful with Wales & Scotland...

*legs it* ;D
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: albitz on 08 May 2012, 23:12:35
Anyone remember the Govt experts in the 60,s/70,s who said that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter ?  ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: Varche on 09 May 2012, 09:45:38
Anyone remember the Govt experts in the 60,s/70,s who said that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter ?  ::) ;D ;D

Yes and at the same time we were told that computers would do so much that we had to prepare ourselves for MORe leisure time as we would all be on 4 or maybe 3 day weeks. I wonder if those experts are still giving their sage pronouncements now?  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wind farm for RALF and friends .
Post by: omega3000 on 09 May 2012, 17:35:30
Lets hope they use some decent brake pads on them  :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o&feature=related