Wind Turbines > Great renewable energy source or just a way for landowners and

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James

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local government to make money.? I am all for renewable sustainable energy alternatives such as wind farms, light towers,solar fields and various tidal and thermal alternatives.

I have studied wind farms in my area and across the U.K

I have found that wind turbines generate very little electricity. In fact of all renewable energy sources these are the least energy efficient and the least cost effective.

Our Government here in the U.K. offer huge cash subsidies to land owners who install wind farms on their properties. The land owners also make a huge profit from selling the plots to prospective manufacturers of wind turbines who then build on these plots and sell the electricity back to the national grid. who then in turn sell it to you the people.

Lots of money is being made by land owners and manufacturers of turbines and also by energy suppliers.

We import huge amounts of food every year and yet here daily good farm land is being sold by its farmers in order to make money.

There are a million questions to answer and a million reasons why.

share your thoughts please.............................................
 
That's a really good question.
I also support renewable energy, but I think that the current market for fossil fuels doesn't allow for technologies that would make wind farms more efficient.
 
Think of it in these terms if those Wind Turbines did not exist, the price of you gas would triple. Your government is not foolish, and someday there will exist a grid to store this energy more efficiently Keep building the Wind Mills and you will continue to have cheap gas. Things often are not what the obvious would indicate.
 
I'm more inclined towards solar power as an effective means of energy. I believe our sun can provide all the energy needed for the entire planet. I mean, it's there for very good reasons.
 
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