It is time to rename "The Atlantic Highway"

TURBINE ALLEY

By argentos at 13:44 on 09/08/12

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To what? The A39?

By BudePeeps at 16:28 on 09/08/12
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Sorry, didn't see the Turbine Alley bit.........really do need my eyes checking!! Yes, there are quite a few, and solar panels, too. You have to somehow try to look beyond them!!

By BudePeeps at 17:12 on 09/08/12
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Much prefer to look at the wind turbines over acres and acres of solar panels.

By Paul_Sill at 21:30 on 09/08/12
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I think I agree about wind turbines over solar panels, but too much of one or the other is detrimental to the countryside. Everyone has their likes and dislikes regards 'green' energy and something has to be done to prove the efficiency and worth of all forms. Nuclear energy is scary (the disposal of waste for a start!) and who really wants a power plant on their doorstep? Hmm a nuclear power plant or a wind farm? I know that this area won't be having a power plant built nearby (or will we?) but the human race really has to start thinking about it's future, seriously, whilst we still have one!

By albertine135 at 17:55 on 07/09/12
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.......And I had to give a little giggle at the TURBINE ALLEY quip.

By albertine135 at 17:57 on 07/09/12
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Wind and/or solar generation may not suit your visual sensibilities but please suggest an alternative for our descendants once digging our energy out of the ground runs out, rather than just complain about what bothers you at present.

Suggest a look at ;

http://tinyurl.com/9rrma3n

if you want to contribute something positive.

By Lunamedia at 00:56 on 09/09/12
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Nuclear power....now that's contributing something positive!

By robbo2009 at 08:05 on 09/09/12
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Wind or Solar? What happens on a windless cloudy day? And, when there is a bit of a wind do we lay off the power station workers. Wind or solar are a way of companies making money, the 'renewable' has to work at night as well!

By TUTULY at 20:27 on 10/09/12
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Renewable energy is the only way to go since, by definition, non-renewable energy is, by definition, bound to run out!

If you think about it for a minute, you will see that it's not a question of one or the other. You obviously need both. One works extremely well in high pressure weather systems, the other in low pressure systems and both work in between. Solar panels produce energy on just about every single day - they don't work on sunshine, they work on light.

I can tell you from personal experience that a solar/ wind combination produces energy every single day, 365 days a year.

But you need something else as well. Since renewable energy is intermittent, you also need energy storage, something that the UK is not yet developing (mainly because it is so far behind many European countries). There are many possible ways to store energy. Apart from batteries (Google liquid metal batteries that can supply whole towns for weeks) you can store energy as heat in so called Heat Stores, in Pumped Storage (very suitable for Cornwall), chemical storage, fly wheel storage, capacitors, compressed air (in under sea chambers), and several others.

Good place to learn about wind energy and possible storage facilities is here: http://tinyurl.com/c9w5vcy

By Cottage Farm Organics at 12:20 on 12/09/12
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