Windage

The BBC has a couple of interesting features at the moment about wind-power and green energy.

The first concerns whether having a wind-turbine at home can make financial sense as well as ecological sense. It’s something that we’ve been looking at, particularly for once we’ve moved – there’s no point spending *cough*thousand pounds on a wind-turbine etc. only to sod off twelve months later. I also think we’ll be making use of grants and so on from organisations such as Clear Skies, and taking advice from the British Wind Energy Association. There’s a lot of other stuff that’ll go into the process, and in that context the article makes for interesting reading.

The second piece details the story of one installation of a domestic wind-turbine, and the trials and tribulations of the process – again, something interesting for future reference.