What stops wind farms in their tracks?

Published 25 Jan 2012 18:28

As the storms raged across Fermanagh at the beginning of the month and you cowered under the kitchen table there was only one thought running through your mind: Those wind farms must be milking it.

You may have imagined those huge turbines on the hill whizzing around like an aircraft propeller, generating enough environmentally friendly green electricity to light up half the country.

You may even have defiantly raised two fingers to Venezuelan president Hugo Charvas and his friends in OPEC, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' cartel, and shouted: "Tiocfaidh ár lá."

You may have been a bit premature.

Find out why in tomorrow's edition of The Impartial Reporter

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