[Kevin Sharpe]

“Wind and solar systems will dominate the power system in increasingly more countries. The battle for the cheapest CO2-free power mix is decided. In the future wind and solar will play an ever greater role in countries across the world as a source of power.”

http://planetsave.com/2014/04/17/co2-free-study-finds-windsolar-power-cheaper-nuclear-ccs/

 

[Paul]

Saw some MASSIVE signs on a journey last week complaining about the prospect of a solar farm out by some fields. Apparently they'll be a blight on the rapeseed fields or something.

 

[Paul_Moxhay]

I visited a wind farm recently and they said that the permissions required their turbines to be a minimum 600m from houses because of the noise.

I have been up close to many big turbines now (1.5MW+) and yet to consider them noisy enough to warrant such distance but I have not yet heard them in high winds.