The public inquiry is now complete and we must await the result.
The planning inspector will, however, be wandering around the area checking the details of the claims made by all witnesses at the inquiry, over the next few weeks.
As soon as we have any information regarding the result - we will publish it on this site.
Nobel laureate:
Wind is not the future
Jack Steinberger, the 1968 Nobel Prize winner in physics and director of CERN’s particle-physics laboratory, spoke at a conference of Nobel laureates at the 350-year-old Royal Society in London last week.
His conclusion: “Wind is not the future,” according to the London Times.Steinberger says Europe should cancel its big wind plans and that solar energy is the future.
Historical resources in the energy-hungry world are being depleted, he said, predicting that fossil fuels, coal, and oil will be gone in 60 years. But the solution, he asserted, is not wind power.
The reason? Wind power still requires backup power when the wind isn’t blowing, and that decreases its contribution to emissions reductions.
On the other hand, solar thermal power–where collectors concentrate sunlight using mirrors and lenses to produce electric power and heat–is already economical and can handle the storage problem, he said. The heat produced can be stored, enabling solar thermal plants to produce electricity during hours without sunlight.
Steinberger now wants funding for a big pilot project.
By Erik Palm
CNET News
1 June 2009