On 03/09/2013 00:04, Java Jive wrote:

Right; a windmill, solar panels and a battery bank.
And a back-up generator.

The problem with wind power in the UK is that whatever the size of the
windmill a backup generator is *always* needed.

On a related note my local paper (Keighley News) has two reports this
week of failed applications by farmers to erect dinky (35m tower)
windmills by local farmers. One denied by Bradford, the other by Craven.
Nimbyism rules where prospective developers are too small to have
politicians in their pockets.

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Roger Chapman