Wind Power News: Christopher Booker
The BBC fails to go on air by wind power
Besotted as the BBC is by wind turbines, BBC South last Monday chose to celebrate the go-ahead given to the world’s largest windfarm in the Thames Estuary with a special broadcast from Green Park, Reading, where millions of motorists each year see the 2 megawatt (MW) turbine erected by Ecotricity next to the M4. The BBC excitably announced that its programme would be powered entirely by electricity from the turbine. Bang on cue ““ no wind. The BBC had to . . . Complete story »
Glaring inefficiency
Christopher Booker told your readers that the wind turbine at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, only works at 8 per cent efficiency (News, December 17). Imagine my amusement, and horror, when I drove past it last night to see it not rotating (not unusual) but now floodlit, presumably to draw attention to the folly. Given the electricity used to light it up, is it now working at minus 8 per cent efficiency? Len Randall, Denham, Buckinghamshire telegraph.co.uk Complete story »
National grid will totter in the prevailing wind
Various recent reports have highlighted one aspect of what, within a few years, will be the most serious crisis confronting this country. Few people realise just how precarious the supply of power upon which our society depends will become ““ even before 2014, by which time we will have closed down the nuclear and coal-fired power stations that now generate 47 per cent of our electricity. Two reports by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) spell out the extraordinary risk we . . . Complete story »
Mendip group backs wind farm protest
www.thewestonmercury.co.uk An action group from the Mendip area has offered help to a group of protestors fighting an appeal against a firm which wants to site five wind turbines near Brent Knoll. Christopher Booker, chair of Chewton Against Rural Turbines (CHART), fought against an application for one turbine near Chewton Mendip. Protestors won the first stage of the battle which saw Mendip District Council throw out the plans. But Ecotricity appealed against the decision and was eventually given permission to . . . Complete story »
