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Putting Old Watermills Back to Work
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November 15 2009 by Ron Cookson (601 views)
Electricity Generation &Watermills | Leave a comment - GM Bartlett's letter in today's Sunday Telegraph bemoans the emphasis on wind turbines in Wales when there are so many watermill sites available.
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Wind turbine blade snaps off UPDATE
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October 10 2009 by Ron Cookson (930 views)
Electricity Generation &Windmills | Leave a comment - Simon Potter and Tim Chapman have helped me update the news item that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 10 October, reporting that strong winds had broken a blade of a 190 ft wind turbine at Catcliffe near …
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Tide Mill Institute Conference 2009
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September 20 2009 by Earl Taylor (669 views)
Electricity Generation &Mills outside the UK &Watermills | Leave a comment - The Tide Mill Conference for 2009 is scheduled for Friday, Saturday November 6-7, 2009. The venue will be the Dorchester Historical Society's William Clapp House at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA in the USA
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Micro-wind turbines may not be the answer
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July 09 2009 by Ron Cookson (643 views)
Electricity Generation | Leave a comment - The Energy Saving Trust has just published a nationwide study of the UK's best locations for micro-wind turbines. Some households could lose money, some could make £2,800 a year.
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Wind farm ‘kills Taiwanese goats’
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May 21 2009 by Cogito (809 views)
Electricity Generation &Mills outside the UK &Windmills | 2 Comments - The BBC (Asia-Pacific News) reports A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm.
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Medieval London water mill found
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March 04 2009 by Ron Cookson (1851 views)
Electricity Generation &News of Mills &Mills outside the UK &Watermills | Leave a comment - William Hill's latest list of news links includes the BBC News item from mid February http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7894524.stm describing the 12th century tide mill at Greenwich.
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News of Windmills
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February 08 2009 by William Hill (810 views)
Electricity Generation &News of Mills &Windmills | 1 Comment - This months news links feature work on Skidby and proposals for Tadworth as well as a video of Rayleigh and a £1million price on Wymondham. There is also a note on making horizontal windmills more efficent
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News of Mills January 2009
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January 11 2009 by William Hill (737 views)
Electricity Generation &News of Mills &Mills outside the UK &Windmills | Leave a comment - Holgate Windmil, Brill Windmill Fulwell Windmill and Rye Windmill all feature with items on the US wind farm industry and the Severn Barrage
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Anger over ‘green’ plans to harness energy from UK rivers
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January 11 2009 by Ron Cookson (684 views)
Electricity Generation &Watermills | 1 Comment - Anglers have attacked plans to build hundreds of "environmentally-friendly" water mills in British rivers. Jasper Copping in the Sunday Telegraph reports.
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Green Power is not so simple!
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November 26 2008 by Ron Cookson (972 views)
Electricity Generation &Mills outside the UK &TIMS &Watermills | 2 Comments - Frans Bouwers from Belgium responded to William Hill's news item on watermills and green power (see the thread "Anyone interested in Mill News?") by pointing out some of the problems with turbines in Flanders. His email follows:
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