SINCE October sightseers on the hills above Edinburgh have gawped at a brand new landmark. Across the Firth of Forth, on a test site, stands the biggest wind turbine in Britain. The tips of its blades rise 196m above sea level. Its rotor sweeps an area twice as large as Read more…
A Devon councillor has branded solar farms as being like concentration camps after the latest plans to install panels in the countryside was revealed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/solarpower/10015326/Solar-farms-like-concentration-camps-Lib-Dem-councillor.html
From Denmark, a twelve minute or so excellent video on WTS.
As Chris Turney and his colleagues make their way home from their failed adventure, the next question is: who is going to be paying for their folly? It certainly isn’t the general public. The efforts by Turney and his co-leader Chris Fogwill to crowd-fund money have been an embarrassing failure. Read more…
In the early 1990s, with dreams of cheap and clean wind energy ascendant, Congress lavished a generous subsidy on power from the tall, twirling turbines. The wind industry responded, and since then has increased its installed generating capacity 30-fold. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-wind-energy-subsidy-edit-0105-20140105,0,2681900.story
A major survey of leading City fund managers reveals widespread confidence in the potential of UK shale gas http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10551182/Shale-set-to-cut-energy-bills.html
Several areas in Britain will see electric pylons installed Areas under threat include the Scottish Highlands and the Lake District More than 200 miles of pylons may be built in the UK in ten years http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533805/The-desecration-Britain-This-stunning-Lake-District-view-set-lost-blighted-monstrous-new-super-pylons-soon-scar-300-miles-countryside-hook-green-energy-new-wave-wind-farms.html
By John Phelps City experts believe we should be in for an easy ride this year as we launch our new portfolio of six shares for 2014 in an attempt to beat the performance of the FTSE 100 share index for the 12th successive year since we began our portfolio Read more…