Anti Wind Power Movement
The Association for Swedish Landscape Protection is growing steadily, with 20 000 registered members, as is opposition to wind power. Their chairman says:
It is beginning to get through, I think, that with the existing nuclear and hydro power available in Sweden, the role for intermittent wind power is marginal and primarily as an exercise in the following of ”fashion”. It has little to contribute to either generation capacity or transmission security. And it is expensive. —Elisabeth von Brömsen, Public radio SR, March 2011Furthermore, 150-metre high turbines have been compared to "skyscrapers in the woods" in their impact. And according to Eva Vitell, head of Vattenfall's Swedish wind power development on land, wind turbines where the wings give a total height of 150 meters are generally not high enough, and that extra height is needed in order to escape the turbulence (from trees) and gain access to good winds.
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