World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light

cliffski writes "According to the BBC website the UK govt has just given the go ahead to two large offshore wind-farm projects. Between them the schemes would produce enough renewable electricity to power about one million households. The larger London Array project covers 144 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex and will be the world's biggest when it is completed. The £1.5bn scheme will have 341 turbines rising from the sea about 12 miles (20km) off the Kent and Essex coasts, as well as five offshore substations and four meteorological masts"

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The question nobody's asked.

[Torvaun]

Is it worth it? Over the complete lifetime of this windfarm, are we going to get energy out in amounts greater than what we had to put in? Manufacturing uses energy from burning coal. Is putting that energy here a waste like with solar power? People talk about green energy without checking to see just how green it really is.