If you have ten minutes and an interest in green energy or wind mills....you might want to wander over to the British Telegraph. There's a fascinating story today.
The story relates to wind mills and Denmark. It appears that interest in building more windmills in the country....has finally peaked.
I've blogged this on a number of occasions...having traveled across Europe and seen the various issues up close.
If you can find an open area....miles away from civilization or cattle....windmills would readily thrive and multiply. The problem is that they put out a low-frequency noise. Any windmill within a mile of a village or home....disturbs people on a minute-by-minute basis. The experts now realize that you've got to put windmills out far away from civilization or people....to make this work.
While the story mainly describes Denmark's peak.....I would suspect the same issue for Germany. You can drive through central Germany on any afternoon and see dozens of windmills. The vast majority are all within a mile or two of some village. In the past couple of years after learning their lessons....most villages will now forbid any windmill construction near their town.
An eventual peak in Germany? I suspect that the "anti" crowd will eventually generate enough support and make it difficult to put a windmill anywhere. The ones currently in operation? I suspect if any lie within a mile or so of a village....they've got maybe a decade of operation left in them....before the locals chase them out. The ones in more remote locations will survive on.
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