Posted on 04/26/2010 8:59:13 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Scandal sullies Spain's clean energy
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The Observer, Sunday 22 March 2009
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Windswept La Muela, with its 500 giant windmills, has become one of Spain's richest towns on the back of what is the new gold for rural communities - renewable energy. Eight years ago, the wind energy companies that provide up to 40% of Spain's electricity on blustery days came looking to plant their turbines. These now line the hills outside the town and form neat patterns across the plain.
Generating companies pay 1m (£940,000) a year to the town hall in rent and taxes. Private landowners, many of whose families worked the hard, unforgiving land for centuries, share a further 0.5m a year. Planting windmills has proved far more lucrative than cultivating crops. Each brings in about 3,000 a year to the landowner.
See #4.
Interesting that they’re having the same problem as us. What with Fannie and Freddie and Wall Street we’ve got the guys who scammed our money now investigating and even running the whole thing.
The report says that the CRU group have been cleared of deliberate scientific malpractice.
Which is another way of saying that the University of East Anglia has yet to adopt the wise course of hiring registered telepaths for its review boards.
I doubt that this board, or any civil board in the UK, are legally capable of ascribing motive. Being cleared of deliberate malpractice by a civil board means precisely nothing - it is a verbal finesse that should put us on our guard.
To expand on my last - the CRU are quite obviously guilty of scientific malpractice. They won’t show their working and they won’t reveal their data.
But is their malpractice due to deliberate criminality or obstinate stupidity? UEA aren’t in a position to say - and if they did it would possibly be actionable in the UK.
London landmark building will generate 8% of its energy needs
The 'Razor', a newly completed tower block in Elephant and Castle, London, will generate nearly a tenth of its own energy through its three rooftop turbines. Photograph: Linda Nylind
Blades yet to be installed ....will have 5 fins....
The 19kW turbines, which were made bespoke for the project, will have five blades rather than the usual three to reduce noise.
That does look like a cool building.
Shame about the lost revenue from the top four floors and the bloody feathers that will litter the pavement below - BUT it will make a great fight location for the next Bond movie.
Analysis of windshear and mobius stresses are right at the top of the list for high buildings. To honest, those big holes should help relieve both effects.
Still - this is a complete waste of money. My prediction: the only people paying the high rents in this building will be Government-backed NGOs. Either that or the costs were highly subsidized by HM Government in the first place.
That big hole in the middle of my sentence was deliberate, it helps to relieve windshear :0)
One hand washes the other.
And over here we have....see #18.
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