Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?
- by Aidan Harrison, December 5, 2014, Northumberland Gazette
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"337","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"320","style":"width: 333px; height: 222px; margin: 3px 10px; float: left;","width":"480"}}]]Its obsession with ‘markets’ has already placed our railways and utilities in the hands of big foreign state and corporate-owned monopolies.
The first thing to make clear is that the technology of wind power is nothing like as inefficient as its fanatical detractors claim.
In terms of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI), it is better than nuclear and shale gas, yet safe and clean.
It is infinitely more energy-efficient than utilising good farmland for biofuel production. Ninety-seven per cent of the dash for turbines is outside the UK, with such politically diverse places as China, Chile and Texas piling into wind power. Can the rest of the world really be so wrong?
The latest figures show that in October, Scotland’s wind turbines produced more Kw/hrs than the country consumed.
Yes, they receive taxpayer support, but only a tiny fraction of the money which our Government has promised to France and Communist China for building two nuclear power stations in Somerset.