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Article from Daily Mail, 30 December 2009
 Ice thrown from a turbine
However, do people realise the icing of wind turbine blades is even more dangerous? There are only two Severn bridges, but there are thousands of gigantic wind turbines across Britain.
In very still, frosty weather, wind turbines are motionless and do not generate any electricity when it is most needed. But massive chunks of ice, weighing several hundredweight, can form on the long blades.
When the thaw sets in, the wind picks up, the turbine spins and huge chunks of ice can be thrown, at speed, up to 300m. This has occurred for years in Denmark and Germany, where propelled ice has smashed car windscreens and broken branches of trees. Many UK wind turbines are dangerously close to busy roads and footpaths.
LYN JENKINS, Gwbert, Cardigan.
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Ancient noise control laws swept away by the march of the large wind turbine |
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By Daily Mail Reporter. Mail Online www.dailymail.co.uk 26 November 2009
Noise control laws are so out of date they will do nothing to protect residents against a swathe of huge new wind turbines, a charity has warned.
Current restrictions only refer to existing turbines up to 90ft in height, says the Environmental Protection UK group.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has drawn up plans for around 4,000 turbines, many of which will be up to 270ft high, to supplement the existing 219 wind farms in the UK.
The environmental group, which campaigns to minimise noise pollution, says the Government guidelines were due to be revised 11 years ago.
It has written to Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt demanding that they be renewed in the light of technological advances.
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Don’t mix up tidal and wind power |
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Article from Scotland On Sunday scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com 11 October 2009
It would appear many pro-wind commentators are now recognising the public are becoming much more aware of the limitations and absurdity of large-scale wind generation in the UK.
Such that these so-called experts now use the generic term "renewables" or refer to wind and tidal power at the same time, hoping to give wind generation some degree of credibility.
Tidal schemes do not require backup by conventional power stations, as the tides are predictable and guaranteed. Whereas wind power (due to the very nature of the atmosphere) demands 90 per cent backup, otherwise the lights are going to go out... so it really is a no-brainer.
Government should call an immediate halt to the mindless proliferation of wind farms which are being subsidised by the public in their energy bills, bearing in mind wind farms also industrialise and despoil our beautiful and irreplaceable countryside.
Dave Haskell, Pembrokeshire
Scotland On Sunday
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com
11 October 2009
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