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Wind
power is environmentally friendly because it doesn't harm the environment
and doesn't cause climate change.
The 30 turbine wind farm at Scroby Sands, off Great
Yarmouth will
provide power for 50,000 homes.
The
wind farm was approved by the government in April 2002 and it is
part of their plan to triple the amount of energy generated from
renewable sources by 2010.
A wind turbine |
The wind farm costs Β£78m to build and is
being constructed by Powergen. Each steel pile on which the turbines
rest are 50 metres long and weigh 200 tonnes.
There
are also plans to build wind farms
in the Wash, off the coast of Cromer.
Tallest
wind turbine
Norfolk
is already home to one of the largest wind turbines in the world,
at the Ecotech Centre in Swaffham, owned by Ecotricity.
At
100 metres tall from the tip of one of the three blades to the ground,
the turbine dominates the skyline of Mid-Norfolk.
It
is around the same height as Norwich Cathedral, 135 feet taller
than Nelson’s Column
A
second wind turbine at Swaffham was completed on 18 July,
2003. The two turbines will supply 75 per cent of Swaffham's total
home electricity requirements, boosting Norfolk's total wind power
by 30 per cent.
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Recommended reading
By Sheila McKeown, a librarian at the Millennium Library in
Norwich.
Energy:
Earth in Danger! by Polly Goodman. Hodder Wayland 2001, ISBN
0750236264.
New
Energy Sources, by Nigel Hawkes. Watts 2000, ISBN 0749637218.
You can get hold of these books through
your local library.
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