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United Kingdom: Wind farms will create more carbon dioxide, say scientists

2013-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: The finding, which threatens the entire rationale of the onshore wind farm industry, will be made by Scottish government-funded researchers who devised the standard method used by developers to calculate "carbon payback time' for wind farms on peat soils. Wind farms are typically built on upland sites, where peat soil is common. In Scotland alone, two thirds of all planned onshore wind development is on peatland. England and Wales also have large numbers of current or proposed peatland wind farms....

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