Government/industry advertised wind farm efficiency:
“Wind turbines will generate on average 30% of their rated capacity over a year.”John Muir Trust [ a green trust] study results for UK wind farms:
* below 20% of capacity more than half the time;"Sustainable" energy sources are proving to be economically and politically unsustainable. Premier McGuinty et al take note.
* below 10% of capacity over one third of the time;
You're missing the point: the only thing that "green" or "renewable" energy projects need to sustain is the steady stream of taxpayers' dollars that keeps them afloat - and a sustainable source of jobs and/or sinecures for political supporters.
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I'm not missing the point Fred. You're right about needing a "steady stream of taxpayers' dollars" but that's unsustainable. Taxpayers aren't going to put up with subsidizing costly, inefficient, noisy, unsightly, bird killing energy sources for very long.
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