Many countries, including the United Kingdom, take a simplistic attitude to wind generated electricity. They rather regard it as an unconditionally good thing and use vast amounts of taxpayers’ money in incentivising it. But things are not so simple; wind has plenty of advantages but also plenty of disadvantages. (more…)
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