"PJ" wrote in message ...
Mary Fisher wrote:
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"Zoinks" wrote in message
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All,
Wandering around the local shed today I notice that they have started
doing wind turbines for £1500 inc. installation and VAT.

The bumf says the following:

1) The turbine generates (up to) 1kW
2) It will save me (up to) 30% of my electricity bill
3) Planning permission is (probably) not needed - it equates it with a
satellite dish.
4) The UK Government will (probably) stump up 30% of the cost.
5) It will pay for itself in (around) 7-12 years.

Any thoughts?

Z.

unless you live on a cliff top you are not going to have enough wind to
get even a tenth of a kilowatt.


Or Norfolk ...

Mary

The two turbines at Swaffham were criticised recently for only producing
30% of the expected output.


That was the Scroby Sands windfarm, the media reported that they had only
produced 30% of expected output but that wasn't apparently true. Though in
this muddled bull**** world of eco energy production I doubt any single
quoted figure by any interested party is true.

This is the BBC report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4786647.stm

Maybe the 30 % figure of the detractors comes from comparing the operators
"bigging it up" hyped maximum output (a la B&Q) compared with the actual 90%
of truly expected yearly output.

H