Wind Turbines or Power Stations?

They might kill alot of birds but global warming will kill thousands of animals aswell as birds.

i like wind turbines :]

To be perfectly honest I'm not bothered how we get energy, as long as there's enough. I'll be dead by the time global warming does anything terrible in Britain, so burn dead animals all you like. Wind power is the biggest load of poo to ever be thought up, it's costly, unreliable, noisy, and takes up lots of space (which in case nobody has realised, we don't have a lot of seeing as how we're an island). Nuclear power is clearly the best, and all the waste can just be put in some country we don't like so they can breed Godzilla farms or something. Nah not sure about nuclear waste, but it's not been much of a problem so far and I don't forsee it being a problem while I'm alive. Hydro-electric power seems to work quite well in England, it's our main backup source of power and does the job nicely. If you want an alternative main source though, move to nuclear. We have the space, technology and can probably get a loan off America, so why not?

who actually cares what it looks like? as long as it does its job i'm down with it.

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

To be perfectly honest I'm not bothered how we get energy, as long as there's enough. I'll be dead by the time global warming does anything terrible in Britain, so burn dead animals all you like. Wind power is the biggest load of poo to ever be thought up, it's costly, unreliable, noisy, and takes up lots of space (which in case nobody has realised, we don't have a lot of seeing as how we're an island). Nuclear power is clearly the best, and all the waste can just be put in some country we don't like so they can breed Godzilla farms or something. Nah not sure about nuclear waste, but it's not been much of a problem so far and I don't forsee it being a problem while I'm alive. Hydro-electric power seems to work quite well in England, it's our main backup source of power and does the job nicely. If you want an alternative main source though, move to nuclear. We have the space, technology and can probably get a loan off America, so why not?

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Yep I agree - Nuclear is the way forward.

Eyesore but worth it

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Originally Posted by ::d4nnyt::

I thought britain was mainly coal fired power stations. Only oil fired power station I could name is Ilse of Grain. The actual energy to power wind turbines is free (obviously), it is the maintainance but the government backs wind turbines so they are profitable.

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Coal reserves in england aint been around since fatcher. Our offsea oil reservers are the sorce of are power, along with a few necular and coal plants. Are oil is running out hence the reason for all the news covargae a while back of the pipe lines.
Wind turbtines are masivly exspencive and do requre more maintaince than a coal/oil or gas plant, becuse the goverment substaities them, it doesnt make them profitable.

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Where I do think you are wrong is saying "takes up masses of space". On the ground a windturbines base isn't very big at all and most of the last they are build on can be used for grazing, farming etc.

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Yes, but for the same as a coal power plant, even a small one, about 10 000 wind turbines would be requred... Now that does take up ALOT of space... (clooser to 200 000 for a nucler plant or larger power plant)

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Widn turbines may be hazzardous to birds but the 'nuclear cloud' of chonobyl killed thousands of birds and polluted water kills many birds. I'm sure that alot of bird get killed by Jets aswell.

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Neculer reactors only do that when theres a major problem, which should never happen if everythings done right. Wind turbines do that even when there working correctly

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What about biomas? There is a power station somewhere in the uk which runs on chicken crap. Also many coalfired power stations are co-fueling with organic materials which can also be renewable.

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Doesnt do the envierment much good, and farmers would make more money useing manuer on the fields than in genriating biomass power

Mentor has an answer for everything -.- lol

I can't be bothered to look back and see who actually posted

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On the ground a windturbines base isn't very big at all and most of the last they are build on can be used for grazing, farming etc.

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But it's very very wrong. The noise would scare animals and possibly make them ill (noise pollution, it can happen) and you wouldn't want to risk farming there for the same reasons as you wouldn't with any power station - if something goes wrong with it, your farm's gone too.

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But it's very very wrong. The noise would scare animals and possibly make them ill (noise pollution, it can happen) and you wouldn't want to risk farming there for the same reasons as you wouldn't with any power station - if something goes wrong with it, your farm's gone too.

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I've seen wind turbines in holland in and around fields and highways. Many power stations are in rural area surrounded by farms maybe even villages so I don't think there is much risk in farming near one. Many animals are in fields near motorways motorways are very noisey and the farmers don't seem to care about putting them there.

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Doesnt do the envierment much good, and farmers would make more money useing manuer on the fields than in genriating biomass power

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Yes but the manure gives off methane gas which is said to be 20 times worse for the environment than Carbon Dioxide. Methane from the manure can be created in a digester tank and used as natural gas. After the gas has been retrieved the manure can be used for farming. So a farmer can make more money with biomas.

Regards Danny.