{"id":2582,"date":"2006-05-25T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/28\/too-many-wind-turbines-in-the-uk-hardly\/"},"modified":"2006-05-28T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T22:24:38","slug":"too-many-wind-turbines-in-the-uk-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/too-many-wind-turbines-in-the-uk-hardly\/","title":{"rendered":"too many wind turbines in the UK? Hardly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying back from Denmark over the UK the other day, I hoped to see at least some wind farms. In a highly unscientific study, I peered out the window from approximately Nottingham to Iona. You know how many wind turbines I saw? <strong>Four<\/strong>. You know how many were working? <strong>One<\/strong>. Hardly something that&#8217;s taking over the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>And strangely, the one I saw working, at Chelker Reservoir, I used to drive past quite often on my way to Skipton. I&#8217;ve never seen more than a couple of those old WEG 300kW two-bladers running. I was frankly amazed there were any of them left. Even from 10000m, you could make out the herky-jerky rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying back from Denmark over the UK the other day, I hoped to see at least some wind farms. In a highly unscientific study, I peered out the window from approximately Nottingham to Iona. You know how many wind turbines I saw? Four. You know how many were working? One. Hardly something that&#8217;s taking over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[693,1302,412,841,367,584,166,365,785,70,217,60,59,608],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-693","tag-ack","tag-denmark","tag-drive","tag-eft","tag-flying","tag-old","tag-red","tag-study","tag-turbine","tag-uk","tag-urbine","tag-wind","tag-zed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}