Wind farms are far from green
YOU carry an article on the destruction/reconstruction of the Hagshaw wind
farm (“Scotland’s first commercial windfarm to be repowered”, The Herald,
July 14).
I note that the powers that be in SSE Renewables seem to be under the
illusion that their efforts in Hagshaw’s replacement are in some manner a
contribution to net zero.
In the video accompanying the online version of the article (“Hagshaw Hill
windfarm: New turbines for Scotland’s oldest windfarm”, heraldscotland,
July 13) I see a diesel-driven crane assisting in the operation.Witnessing
the operation are at least six persons in high-vis gear. I presume they
were transported to the site in fossil-fuel-powered vehicles.
The only persons missing were some Just Stop Oil representatives who
presumably found that biking to the site was not to their liking.
All wind farms, despite the hype, are a source of non-renewable “renewable
energy”. Their manufacture and construction are in large part from
fossil-fuel-mined materials.
Indeed a further consideration overlooked is that fossil fuel and materials
used in the replacement work are more difficult to obtain by virtue of the
fact that materials required are “higher-hanging fruit” than the earlier
materials. Therefore significantly more energy is required to acquire the
said materials. The net zero claim is completely false. It is akin to a
claim of perpetual motion.
John M Caldwell, Bothwell.
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