Letters: Ugly, disruptive and unreliable: the reality of onshore wind farms
Opinion by Letters to the Editor • Yesterday 7:01 PM
SIR – In 2012 our community was “blessed” with an industrial wind turbine (Letters, November 28), which stands 300 ft above us, blighting the South Downs National Park.
Despite the developer’s original claims, it produces just 17 per cent of its rated output (the term is “load factor”). Likewise, despite prior assurances of silence, it whumps incessantly with a medium-strength prevailing southerly wind.
At the planning inquiry the developer bolstered the application by claiming that the device would perform an educational function. It has certainly achieved that objective.
Dr Rosie Boxer
Ringmer, East Sussex
SIR – At a photo shoot in the late 1980s, I stood next to the first ever large commercial wind turbine blade.
As I was chatting to the visionary who developed it, he remarked: “This technology will work – it’s just that we don’t know how strongly and regularly the wind will blow.”
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