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"Onshore wind farms could save UK £3bn a year by 2030"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

https://www.edie.net/onshore-wind-farms-could-save-uk-3bn-a-year-by-2030/

"Onshore wind farms could save UK £3bn a year by 2030"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

https://www.edie.net/onshore-wind-farms-could-save-uk-3bn-a-year-by-2030/

"Onshore wind farms could save UK £3bn a year by 2030"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

https://www.edie.net/onshore-wind-farms-could-save-uk-3bn-a-year-by-2030/

"Onshore wind farms could save UK £3bn a year by 2030"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

https://www.edie.net/onshore-wind-farms-could-save-uk-3bn-a-year-by-2030/

"Onshore wind farms could save UK £3bn a year by 2030"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

https://www.edie.net/onshore-wind-farms-could-save-uk-3bn-a-year-by-2030/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/?p=410945 POWERCHINA Advances More Than 1.8 GW of Wind and Storage in Egypt #China #Egypt #EnergyStorage #WindTurbines

And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map

And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map

And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map

And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map

And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map

MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10

MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10

MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10

MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10

MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10

That unique feeling when the sun throws its light into the dusty sky, and you see their silhouettes out to the horizon, generating invisible charges that power everything we know and love...

Taken by me in West Texas, "Blades in the Dark".

#art #photography #sunrise #dawn #twilight #HighPlains #Texas #WestTexas #sky #skyscape #windturbines #powerplant #windfarm

#GolfCourses Use More Land Globally Than #Solar or #WindEnergy

Story by Mihai Andrei, February 25, 2025

"The land use of #RenewableEnergy is often criticized in public and political debates. However, a new study shows that something as frivolous as golf courses use up more land globally than solar or wind energy. Golf courses, which often serve a small number of #AffluentPeople, are also terrible for the #environment and use up a lot of #water and resources.

Competition for space

"The lush greenery you see on golf courses is a well-maintained lie. Golf courses use enormous amounts of water — sometimes in regions already facing shortages. Maintaining that flawless grass also means heavy reliance on #fertilizers and #pesticides, which seep into local waterways, harming# wildlife and #polluting #ecosystems. To make it even worse, golf courses are apparently competing with renewable energy for space.

"Every acre we allocate to one use is an acre less for another. Currently, more than 38,400 golf courses span the globe, occupying vast stretches of valuable land. Surprisingly, researchers from Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich found that countries (especially richer countries like the US, the UK, and Canada) dedicate far more land to golf courses than to #SolarFarms or #WindTurbines.

"Let’s put this into perspective. If you take the golf courses in just the top ten golfing countries and convert them into renewable energy, you’d get an extra 842 gigawatts (GW) of solar or 659 GW of wind capacity. And to put that into perspective, that’s more than the entire quantity of renewable energy these countries produce and are forecast to have for a few years.

Replacing golf courses with something more useful isn’t a new idea, it’s already happening in some areas. In Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, an entire golf course now hosts 260,000 solar panels, generating 125 gigawatt-hours annually. Meanwhile, in South Korea, 'screen golf,' indoor simulated golfing experiences, provide a popular, space-efficient alternative to traditional courses."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/general/golf-courses-use-more-land-globally-than-solar-or-wind-energy/ar-AA1zHvIE
#Renewables #RenewablesNow #GolfCourses #WaterIsLife #Rewilding #WindTurbines