From the Beeb:
£48k turbine which made just £5 of power a month to be removed
A wind turbine which cost the taxpayer £48,000 and generated an average of just £5 worth of electricity per month is being removed.
It was put up at the Welsh government's Aberystwyth office when it opened in 2009 as part of a range of environmentally-friendly features.
But ministers came under fire last year over its output and will now remove it.
They say the turbine's manufacturer went into liquidation and they were not likely to find someone to maintain it.
Last year, the Welsh government confirmed in a response to a Freedom of Information request that between January 2012 and July 2013 the turbine generated 585 kilowatt hours of energy (kWh) - an average of 33 kWh per month.
Taking 16p as an estimate for the price of electricity per kWh in the consumer market, that worked out at a value of £5.28 per month.
At that rate it would have taken hundreds of years for the turbine to offset its cost.
Without government subsidies, wind is not economically viable. Our tax dollars at work.
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