[Margaret Pilkington]

No, these monstrosities are very inefficient at providing energy. The wind doesn't always blow...and when it does it may be either too strong or too weak for the turbines to be active
They make money(they are much more efficient at doing that than they are at producing energy)...but only for those on whose land they stand and those who make the blasted things.

There are other options for green energy if the government really wanted us to be producing green energy.

Every house could be fitted with solar panals...the ones which produce energy from light....any level of light.
If the government wanted to make it easy they could give grants...or maybe even loans to be offset by the money levied from any extra energy that was produced by each home...and that went to the national grid.

We are an island with a very long coastline....tides are regular and powerful.
Energy could be produced from wave power.
I am of the opinion that those who are currently producing and selling us our power are in some sort of cahoots so that other forms of eco energy are not invested in(I know another conspiracy thing - but it would make perfect sense)or researched and resourced.

All this talk about global warming is unconvincing. Many of the edicts about how we produce energy to use come from the EU.
Isn't it a bit odd how some of our energy producers are from Europe? Wouldn't they lose out if we decided that we would not follow EU edicts about producing our own energy?