I took these pictures to the North of Newark on the way to Leeds.
You don’t often see an onshore single wind turbine as large as this one.
August 17, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Onshore Wind Power, Wind Power
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
There is a single 330kW machine between Grantham and Newark about a mile to the East of the ECML according the renewables database at a location known as Frinkley Farm.
No other single machines are listed in the area could that be it i wonder?
Of course every farm should have one but since Cameron blocked onshore wind farms in England we’ve become the laggard in the UK but we are quite happy to a sea of solar panels instead. I know what looks better to me.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | August 18, 2023 |
It must have been around forty years ago, when I often woke-up to Radio 4’s farming program, that I heard an item about a farmer in Bedfordshire, who was using a wind turbine to heat his greenhouses. The turbine didn’t generate electricity, but pumped hydraulic fluid, through a restrictor in a boiler in his greenhouse heating circuit. He also had a gas boiler in the circuit, for when the wind wasn’t blowing.
He was doing it to save money, but looking back it also saved a lot of carbon emissions.
The technology now exists to back the wind turbine up with a gas-fired combined heat and power boiler, where the carbon dioxide is fed to the plants and any surplus electricity is fed in to the grid.
The electrolyser technology is coming to generate hydrogen, that can be used to power the farmer’s tractors, Land Rover and other equipment.
It could be a nice little earner to sell hydrogen to all his neighbours.
Green power for the countryside.
Comment by AnonW | August 18, 2023 |