The Queen going green!
Two huge turbines costing seven hundred thousand pounds and built by a Dutch company in the Netherlands,
were installed this last Wednesday using a crane at Romney Weir by the River Thames, just a bit down
the road from Windsor.
Estimated to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by seven hundred and ninety thousand kilogrammes a year,
they will likely require about a further million pounds to be invested for the installation.
The turbines are based on Archimedes principles, he was the inventor of a screw system to bring water
from one level to a higher level, such "pumps", if you will, may often be seen in Egypt ant the Middle East
where water is scarce, the land is flat and needs to be moved from one field to another.
Plans a few years back were put on hold, but now are being introduced in to the Royal scheme of things again.
A palace advisor stated:
"We have been looking at this for a number of years. It is one of a number of green initiatives
introduced at royal residences by the Queen and the Duke Edinburgh."
The Turbines should be ready to go in November.
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