An £11,000 Government grant has helped Langtoft Primary School become the first in Lincolnshire to install its own wind turbine.
The Local reports that the turbine could cut the school's energy bills by up to £3,000 a year, as well as helping to teach young people about global warming and renewable energy sources.
Half the cost of the turbine was funded by a grant from the Department of Trade and Industry.
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Any idea where the other £11,000 came from?
dave:
sorry, the Local story doesn't mention how the other 11k was raised....
Indeed. That's the reason I asked.
Some of the other reasoning in the story is a little suspect too, don't you think?
It doesn't matter which particular corrupt organ of the Government this money comes out of...the taxpayer is paying, in one guise or another.
So what Phil wants us to do, boys and girls, is congratulate Whitehall for spending your money. Er...no thanks.
I plead guilty to believing that the DTI's 50% grant is a sound investment of taxpayers money.
And yes, I congratulate the Head Teacher for making his idea for practical education a reality - and creating the longer term potential to spend a little less of taxpayers money on electricity and a little more on education.
Based only on the information in that article?
Based on what's contained in there, isn't it the case that it's going to take somewhere between 7 and 11 years before savings are actually going to be made?
Without knowing where the other £11,000 came from aren't you curious about what might have lost out to pay for this? Aren't you also curious about how they estimated the "savings" to be made? Wouldn't you want answers to those sorts of questions before you decided it was a sound investment?
Expectation of payback in 7-11 years appears to make sound financial sense - with at least two added bonuses.
First, electricity used in the meantime is from renewable sources rather than burning the earth's resources.
Second, the turbine provides a practical teaching aid covering a range of subjects, including math, science, and geography...
How "hands on" is the turbine? What will it teach that, say, the theory of wind turbines wouldn't? Do the children get data from it? Is there a projection of how it will work over the next 10 years and do they get data from it to compare projection vs reality?
Aren't you the least bit interested though in what might have lost out for the £11,000 to be used on this?
It's not that I think it's all a terrible idea, it's just that for someone who seems keen on not passing judgement on something without having all the facts you seem more than happy to praise this without all the facts.
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