Re: BBC- News story - domestic wind power

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What made me laugh about that article was one of the comments
afterwards
- someone saying how much better it would be for everyone to install
micro-generation wind turbines instead of spending billions on nuclear
power.  A rough calculation suggests at least 2k per house, multiplied
by 23 million homes, which comes to £46bn, and would satisfy only 30%
of
the country's power demands.

Whether it  comes from taxes or comes directly from our own pockets,
£46bn isn't much of a saving over next-gen nuclear.

Mal


Marcus Warrington wrote:

>Interesting article on the BBC site. SWMBO works for CIS so sent it to
me
>CIS are currently putting wind turbines and solar panels on its head
office
>building..
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>Shame the article doesn't actually go as far as giving people links and
prices,
>but it certainly shows that these things are coming to the public
attention.
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>Personally I'd install a wind turbine today if I could only figure out
how to
>apply for a "clear skies" grant and I could sell the
electricity back to the
>national grid.
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>Seems to me that the daft part about these grants are that they only
apply
>to official installers.. i.e. the installer can simply increase his
fitting
>price to absorb the grant and you still end up paying the actual
cost... or
>am I just being cynical ?
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4694070.stm
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