On 27/03/2016 12:41, philgurr wrote:
"George Booth" wrote in message
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Wind turbines, plenty of them seen from here. Started counting one clear day, got to 80
and rather lost interest. They've certainly had a windy couple of years. The question is
what is their working life?

Planning applications usually give a working life of 20 years and some
are now already more than half-way through this. A more important
point is what happens when the 20 years is up? Will they be left as rusting
monuments or replaced by even larger turbines?

Phil
40 miles N. of Inverness



Thanks Phil. I was looking at the latest OS 1:50000 map of my 1970's
undergraduate mapping area between Loch Awe and Loch Fyne (nr Inveraray)
and guess what? - the An Suidhe Wind Farm with 23 turbines.

I suspect, given current (aha!) thinking on power generation they will
be replaced. Perhaps fracking is the way to go for Scotland?

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George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl
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