Why wind power won't work

'Wind farms not in windy places', said a headline on the BBC website last Thursday. What's more, even those that are actually situated in the right place generate more problems than they do power.

You all know my opinion on the biofuels con, but is wind power the technology that could succeed where others fail? I don't think so

Cornell University's David Pimentel called biofuels: 'Unsustainable subsidised food burning'. I believe that windfarms are just as much of a dead end they cause highly subsidised devastation of the landscape Let me explain why

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