Wind Farms: Fenbeagle - Viewing Profile

Con with Wind....A film worth looking at...

http://www.conwiththewind. com/

Concerned
In point of fact, if you wish to get an idea of the likely surface area of the foundations for your site. go to Google Earth, and view the Bicker site. The concrete foundations for several Turbines can be seen, in readiness for the Turbines to be placed upon them. Scottish Power, in their planning application for nearby Sempringham Fen claimed they would need to pile drive 8 piles (per Turbine) each one 30 meters deep and two meters wide...a total of 1,810 Tonnes per Turbine (754.24 cubic meters) plus 55 Tonnes of Steel. This in addition to the foundations themselves which would be 450 cubic meters or a further 1,080 Tonnes per Turbine. (This is for a 2mw Turbine x 125m high to rotor tips on the Fens)
This link to BHATs website shows a Bicker Turbine Foundation, layered over Billingborough Church and grounds, for scale...
http://bhats.org/
The 8x30 meters deep piles (88.42 feet) are aprox. two thirds the height of Billingborough Church (150 feet)
BuildingGreen.com gives 1 ton of concrete as equal to 1 ton of C02 emissions. (Not including the C02 produced by Deisel vehicle emissions involved in transporting it.)

To the extent that the DECC do not reply, the press should be informed. We are a democracy, and democracy is at issue.

If the Wind Turbines at Bicker don't start turning soon, the Developers will be agreeing with you!

According to their website, Ecotricity currently operates 7 sites rated at 1.8 to 2mw. According to their stated dimensions, the turbine sizes of 6 of these sites are 120m to rotor tips. 1 site (Shooters bottom in Somerset) claims 2mw from a 100m high Turbine to rotor tips.