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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 19-May-2009 At 10:13:50 AM TonyB

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> green house polluting
> climate change

Coal fired power stations are designed to be big enough to cope with peak power loads. Costs of electricity are more strongly related to the capital and manpower required to build and run power stations, rather than the cost of the coal.

Windmills (and solar power) are unable to provide reliable power at peak load times. They cannot reduce the required number of coal fired power stations.

Wind power ( and solar power ) are much more costly than coal power, even ignoring peak load considerations.

The claimed effects of CO2 from coal fired power stations on climate is a monumental political scam. There is not a single piece of evidence that man's CO2 has had any effect whatsoever on the global warming in the past 180 years since the Little Ice Age, or the current global cooling trend.