Newsletter was new low
THE German RWE npower renewables newsletter outlining the revised proposal for a wind farm on Mynydd y Gwair is a new low, even for their normal spin on capacity. Capacity, capacity with no word about practical output a fifth of the time.
The cover is a giveaway, with a totally irrelevant photo of the core of the junior 95-metre high turbine of occasional up to 2MW output. In brackets and mini print it says: Photographs of existing operational wind farms within this newsletter and not intended to represent the appearance, size or scale of the proposed Mynydd y Gwair wind farm." Well, well, a pointless exercise!
The inside does not improve, with a dreadful map of the proposed site with the grid references airbrushed out.
It gets worse! The original proposal was for 19 theoretical two and a half MW output, up to 47 and a half MW below the 50 MW limit for an inspector to decide. Mr Simon Wilde turned it down on deep peat bog grounds. Now 16 of the original 19 survive. 16x2.1/2 = 40MW.
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Surprise! These 16 have grown 20 per cent to 16x3 = 48MW — greater than the original 19. Subsidy-driven capacity nonsense yet again — even ignoring the substantial loss due to the exhaust effect of some pairs too close in the South West 225 degree wind direction and the big altitude drop over the site. Numbers 4, 9 and 13 have been dropped on super peat grounds, with the motorway changed around 4 and 9 off Pentwyn Mawr to the forestry border but still deep in peat.
These massive turbines 127 meters high with 49 metre blades standing on 380 cubic metres concrete bases will never stand on their own feet energy-wise. It is the triple crown of subsidies for greenhouse mania. Thankfully, after sacrificing thousands of acres of Welsh Hills — our prime heritage, sanity has kicked in again in Powys with their rejection of three proposed wind farms. Swansea Council please reject this new planning application as you did with the original.
Meirion Bell
Heol Myddfai, Felindre
Comments
by Norfolkian
Saturday, October 20 2012, 9:39AM
“Gwyddno. NO, I do not admit that was wrong because Pension Fund managers and Investment Trust managers look to invest in profit-making business. Their monies are now invested elsewhere to obtain the returns for share-holders and investors.
Have you read the reports yet? The situation is not a narrow and clear-cut as you appear to think.
So ask yourself why many European economies are failing and investigate the reasons.”
by Gwyddno
Saturday, October 20 2012, 9:20AM
“Norfolkian
So, you admit that you were wrong to accuse pension fund managers and investment trusts of causing R&D wipe out.”
by Norfolkian
Saturday, October 20 2012, 8:50AM
“Gwyddno, read these:
1. 'Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources', Universidad Rey juan Carlos, March, 2009.
2. 'Wind Energy: the case for Denmark', CEPOS, Sept. 2009
3. 'Economic Impacts from promotion of renewable energies: the German Experience', RWI, October 2009
4. 'Worth The candle' [about Scotland], verso Economics, March 2011
5. 'How less became More.....', Bentek, April 2010.
Then ask yourself how and why all our industry is disappearing.
Neither Government nor Entrepreneurs are investing and competitive industry lives off R&D. Money can only be spent once and if you miss the boat there is no second chance.
The Government used to invest in R&D within the nationalised industries and Government departments, now hived off to the sacrificial altar of privatisation and consumerism.”
by Gwyddno
Friday, October 19 2012, 8:14PM
“Norfolkian
So investor groups asking for climate change to be taken seriously has 'wiped out R&D' ?
Please provide proof.
Cutting back on R&D is for CEOs and Governments to decide, not pension funds and other investment groups.”
by Norfolkian
Friday, October 19 2012, 12:43PM
“'Gwyddno'. Thanks.
Highly pertinent references.
That is precisely, isn't it - "ITS BAD FOR BUSINESS", but in being bad for business it has wiped out any R&D investment in wealth-creating industries and sustainable employment.”
by maxmin
Thursday, October 18 2012, 11:47AM
“And as you will appreciate Carbon Credits are meaningless.”
by Gwyddno
Thursday, October 18 2012, 11:45AM
“maxmin
So the EIA report of January 2009 (Table ES1) is more up to date than their report of August 2009 (Table ES1)?
Or, is it that the generation by renewables in the August table is in billion kilowatts (terawatts) not gigawatts?
America will continue to increase the burning of coal for electricity generation. The US Govt isn't bothered about exceeding their carbon emissions quota.
Here's How
The USA has cut aid to the developing world and will be using the money saved to buy carbon credits from the countries that they were helping.
Norfolkian
Thanks for the tip.
Investor groups with over $15trillion want climate change to be taken seriously because not doing so is bad for business.
http://tinyurl.com/9l9h8wl
http://tinyurl.com/9hsbfcp”
by maxmin
Thursday, October 18 2012, 11:18AM
“The link you gave led to a report Report #: SR-OIAF/2009-05
Released Date: August 4, 2009
I believe the report I quoted was given a release date of 21 January 2009. Check it out for yourself you can't expect me to do everything!”
by Gwyddno
Thursday, October 18 2012, 10:48AM
“maxmin
Seeing as U R prowling around, how about answering my question of October 16 2012, 11:40PM?
Scroll down.”
by Norfolkian
Thursday, October 18 2012, 10:46AM
“If you are prepared to believe everything the BBC pushes onto your lollipop TV screen, then you have a problem.
Get a bit of discrimination and learning into your lives. Half-truths become more believable when there are women fronting it on the screen, does it?
Great oxymoron that - "BBC Trust".
Did you know that the BBC Pension Fund is headed by Peter Dunscombe who is associated with the Institutional Investors Group for Climate Change [IIGCC] and there is £8billion of it invested in keeping the scam alive in tree-huggers lives every which way. Keep on believing in your false god.”