Firms paid to shut down wind farms when the wind is blowing

Wind power is not only useless and expensive, it's a taxpayer funded rort.

From the Torygraph:
Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per wind farm to turn off their turbines because the National Grid cannot use the power they are producing.

Critics of wind farms have seized on the revelation as evidence of the unsuitability of turbines to meet the UK's energy needs in the future. They claim that the 'intermittent' nature of wind makes such farms unreliable providers of electricity.

Full article here http://tinyurl.com/2bas4l8

Via http://wattsupwiththat.com/

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