Why home wind won’t work
I have every intention of writing something of my own here one day, but until i get around to it, here are some links…….
Home wind turbines are significantly under performing and in the worst cases generating less than the electricity needed to power a single light bulb, according to the biggest study of its kind carried out in Britain: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/06/windpower.alternativeenergy
Nice page from CAT’s Info Department:
http://www.cat.org.uk/info
Two very good “rants” on Windsave:
http://scruss.com/blog/ind
http://scruss.com/blog/?p=
Short clip from a Panorama documentary detailing that the average U.K households have only a six meters per second wind speed, B&Q are selling us something that will save us £10 annually for a £1500 outlay. In it a Windsave man does a terrible job of trying to tell us why they are still good, despite the company’s enormous backpedaling:
http://www.youtube.com/wat
