To answer Windy Miller, A modern wind farm requires about 50 staff to construct but most of them are tendered, short term jobs and no guarantee they will go to locals. Once running, a modern wind farm is remotely monitored, with a skeleton staff to maintain them of say 5 or ten engineers. For manufacture, most wind turbines come from abroad and there is little infrastructure available to build them in the UK and according to WAG, the ‘imperitive of preventing climate change’ means there isnt time to build new factories.

There is no doubt that the human population must affect the climate of the planet due simply to their weight of numbers and need to consume energy that produces pollutants. Anyone who desputes this is clearly deluded. All of the other rubbish described about this issue, on both sides of the arguement is questionable.

If I told you that we, as part of Europe, are about to embark and pay for a new international super-grid for electricity, using wind power in windy countries, solar in sunny countries and nuclear in the middle countries, trading between us whatever power each country produces, it all makes a bit more sense. It will need an ‘intelligent grid’. It will cost a fortune but will be more efficient as sharing resources always proves to be.

What remains true and ridiculous is that we are devoting time, money and natural resources on a way of creating electricity that is probably the least efficient use of these resources as wind power is a rich mans dream and a statue to the misunderstanding of the need for the worlds population to protect its’ natural resources by making the most efficient use of them possible. The sooner we use up our natural resources the sooner we all grow poor and cold.

It then wont matter what state the climate is in.

The only time when wind power is the right thing to do is when there is no more efficient way to produce electricity. ie away from the national grid or when we run out of nuclear fuel (unlikely as we are now able to recycle much of it).

Nuclear offers the highest energy density for its mass, the waste has many uses and I find it absolutely appalling that we are only just beginning to explore the possibilities of recycling nuclear waste to provide new fuel and even to heat our homes, for hundreds of years, for free. Now that really is effient.

Wind power is a consumer fad that we are all part of and all guilty of contributing to. We play at being green while we buy cheap goods from countries still relying on coal for power. You and I are guilty of this, our government is simply trying to relieve us of our guilt.

Unfortunately it’ll cost a packet.

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I was working on a perpetual motion machine to solve the world’s energy problems myself. I gave up when I realised I was standing on one.

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