Typical Political Bureaucrats.

[Taf]

A wind turbine that cost the Welsh government £48,000 to buy has been generating an average of just £5 worth of electricity per month.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24854272

[Osem]

Yep heard this on the radio this morning, it wasn't even sited in the right location but let's not worry about that eh? It's only taxpayers' money after all.

By the time increased energy prices make it viable (if ever), it'll probably be obsolete.

[Nidge41]

Originally Posted by Taf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24854272

There was something on the Discovery channel a few weeks ago about these wind farms, they said we need a tropical storm everyday of the week to make them viable.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

That's just the problem, they don't like too much wind or too little.

Rather like goldilocks the wind has to be the right kind of wind.

It's why we can never rely on wind power to provide the base load generation. It's gas and nuclear for the foreseeable future.

The wrong sort of wind... Too true.

I'm still not clear about the loner term maintenance issues and costs associated with these things.

[richard s]

I wonder if this was voted through a committee and the people not understanding the technical jargon - or was someone given a bung from the supplier.

They should have installed it inside the debating chamber. There's bags of wind in there.

[Taf]

There was an article on the BBC Wales site yesterday about how their refurbished offices have been fitted with TV's, etc. at huge cost. It has vanished now though.

Austerity? What austerity?

[chris9991]

Originally Posted by Taf

There was an article on the BBC Wales site yesterday about how their refurbished offices have been fitted with TV's, etc. at huge cost. It has vanished now though.

Austerity? What austerity?

This one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24852476

[Taf]

You beat me to it!

£50,000 was spent on 88 new television sets at a cost of more than £500 each

...including more than £6,000 on a 75-inch model

[Russ]

Originally Posted by richard s

I wonder if this was voted through a committee and the people not understanding the technical jargon - or was someone given a bung from the supplier.

More like it.

This is typical of the self-serving clueless Welsh Assembly. Little more than a local council Town Hall. The Senedd was a waste of time (Roy Davies - "We could have it built anywhere in Wales") and now Cameron is thinking of giving them even more financial powers?

What a joke. Spending money just so they can be seen by other 'governments' to be doing so.

[Taf]

Every person in Wales is represented by five AMs in total: one AM for their constituency (the local area in which they live), and another four AMs that represent their region.

..weekly meetings of all 60 Members... on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons between 1.30 and 6.30pm.

http://www.assemblywales.org/abthome...its-people.htm

And yet there are calls from within their ranks to increase their numbers as they are "overworked".

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Taf

http://www.assemblywales.org/abthome...its-people.htm

And yet there are calls from within their ranks to increase their numbers as they are "overworked".

We have an Assembly Member who comes to the running club I'm at. She's very nice on a personal level but my motivation for training harder is when she starts discussing policies

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Osem

Yep heard this on the radio this morning, it wasn't even sited in the right location but let's not worry about that eh? It's only taxpayers' money after all.

By the time increased energy prices make it viable (if ever), it'll probably be obsolete.

Its obsolete now

[Arthurgray50@blu]

I wouldn't tell Mr Cameron about that - otherwise he will instal more and make us pay ofr it, while he gets heat on the cheap.

Yeah, cos that's what Tories do, the evil baby-chomping gits.