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  • Most of the wind farms will take over a decade to pay for themselves and the parts & componentry won't last for that length of time. The only people who win from this are the companies who win the lucrative maintenance contracts.

    All of this is a huge fucking con.

    We should be nuclear...

    Sigh.

    No-one in the City invests in Nuclear, they do invest in Wind. Their design life is 20-25 yrs. Maintenance costs / contracts are peanuts in the grand scheme of things but they do provide ongoing local and regional employment.

    Anyway, my tuppence and I'm out. I have a little wind farmer here to deal with.

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