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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I hate the things. They are useless lumps of ugly engineering.......they blight the landscape and make very little electricity, but lots of money for foreign companies(although the blades are made in the Isle of Wight).
If we really are serious about green energy then we have to look at tidal power.
We have a vast coastline, tides that are reliable and this could generate power on an impressive scale....far better than these inefficient turbines ever could.
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How are you measuring the efficiency of them?
They use no fuel as such so you can't look at the ratio between the energy in the fuel and the amount of electricity generated as you would most other forms of generation