The Anonymous Widower

Donald Trump, Alex Salmond and Wind Turbines

There’s an interesting article in Friday’s Guardian, called Donald Trump wind turbine fiasco could be defining for Scotland. The first part is about Donald Trump opposition to several large offshore wind turbines by his new golf course near Aberdeen and how he is going to fund the opponents of wind power in Scotland.

By the way the Birther Movement mentioned in the Guardian article, as part-funded by Trump,  are a group of conspiracy theorists, who believe President Obama was not born in Hawaii. So Trump has form, when it comes to funding opposition groups that might help his personal ambitions or business interests.  There’s more on the movement here.

There is one statement after Trump and that is this.

But the idea of Trump as good business versus loony-greens hellbent on no-jobs is nonsense. Bloomberg New Energy Finance recently suggested onshore wind will be cost competitive with gas and coal generation by 2016.

I hope Bloomberg is right, as the waters around these island certainly have a lot of wind.

In some ways, the second part of the Guardian article is in some ways the more significant. It talks about how a wind turbine is being built at Portobello in Edinburgh. I wonder what the good burghers of Scotland’s capital think of the project?

 

February 26, 2012 - Posted by | News | , , , , ,

2 Comments »

  1. Good for Mr Trump – other victims cannot afford to do this and have to put up with the consequences of these monstrosities.

    Are you disillusioned by rising electricity prices, over dependence on the “green” dream [especially uneconomical and inefficient wind farms] and the destruction of our countryside then please register your objection to the Government on

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22958

    or by GOOGLING “E-PETITION 22958” and following the link.

    Comment by David Ramsbotham | February 26, 2012 | Reply

    • Wind turbines are fine for micro-generation or specific areas. So the tiny ones you see by train lines and roads powering signals etc. are definitely good. Also some windy islands and other places where the cost of getting power there is astronomic, are also good. But as mainstream power generation they are useless, especially as you need to back them up with something like nuclear or gas anyway.So you get a double cost. Remember all children are fascinated by windmills.

      The first thing we must do, is insulate houses properly and then after that the best way to reduce energy properly is to have community energy companies, who buy for a whole town or city.

      In the end though we’ll have to build nuclear power stations, as the bird watchers, won’t let us barrage the Severn and other estuaries to create power from the tides.

      But I suspect that something else will come along, that will give us cheap energy. It certainly won’t be wind.

      Comment by AnonW | February 26, 2012 | Reply


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