This is kinda cool, but doesn’t even show the existing ones near Deal and Great Yarmouth let alone the planed one near Aberdeen nor the huge areas off Norfolk .
http://www.bwea.com/ukwed/map-in-planning.htmlI suspect that site has an agenda. It’s not uncommon.
This is from Wikipedia
“As of January 2012, there were 321 operational wind farms in the UK, with 3,506 turbines and 5,953 MW of installed capacity. A further 3,519 MW worth of schemes are currently under construction, while another 5,804 MW have planning consent and some 9,849 MW are in planning awaiting approval.[10]
The UK will require 7,500 offshore turbines by 2020 to meet EU targets”
Sorry could you repeat that?
“The UK will require 7,500 offshore turbines by 2020 to meet EU targets”
Some of these planned offshore farms cover the area of a good city and all approved based on shaky science.
To date the largest in the world is the one you can see from Deal
Again from Wiki
“The owners will receive a subsidy of £60M per year on top of the £30-40M cost of the electricity due to Renewables Obligation Certificates, and based on the estimated working life of the turbines of 20 years, the total subsidy will come to £1.2 billion. Since there are only 21 permanent green jobs, the subsidy per job comes to around £3M per year”
I believe those old cooling towers are not due to be dismantled because they are linked with Asbestos and it’s just too expensive, better to leave them for another day. Who do you think will pick up the bill of removing the wind turbines once a more efficient and truly renewable way of harnessing natures energies, show them up for what they are? They are follies pure and simple (IMO of course).