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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pratincol" data-source="post: 3302481" data-attributes="member: 65801">Thanks for those photos.Ugly! Reminds me of our journey through Scotland last week.Another place to knock off my bucket list!The only lessons the wind  turbine industry has learnt is how to grab as much tax payers money to build the damn things.Every time I see yet another defunct,idle or damaged wind turbine I think, ' I helped pay for that when I paid my taxes.'Thank goodness subsidies will end in April.There are enough of them now in this country.Let us get on with the serious job of securing reliable sources of constant energy for the future.I still haven't learnt the average life span of a turbines which don't appear to last very long before they are taken down again - to be replaced by another one.There has to be an enormous environmental and financial cost of dismantling the old one,transportation to the scrap metal yard,recycling then manufacturing,transporting and erection of a new one.Imagine the fuel and energy costs of all that!I  am still puzzled why they break down so often.They are supposed to be straightforward machines.The wind blows,the blades go round and the electricity is produced.Why then are the turbines locally NEVER all working in unison?The average loss of power from source to consumer is 30%.Is this figure higher for windfarms which are often located in even greater distances from populated areas?Is this percentage factored in when boasts are made about how many homes a windfarm will power or do they make the claims based on the energy produced at source?</blockquote>

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