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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/information/info_content.tmpl?sku=info_faq_roofwind&subdir=information

Two very good “rants” on Windsave:
http://scruss.com/blog/index.php?p=31
http://scruss.com/blog/?p=236

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/watch?v=WVo0WvuX7K0