When several years ago, Malta decided to build a new university, they sent expert engineers to examine how universities were built in Sweden. Sweden is a land where the sun is very rarely seen. So, the Swedes built their universities with their sides of glass facing the sun to absorb as much sun as possible.

The experts came to Malta and did the same idea. When the university was ready, it was discovered that it was a place fit to bake humans. They had to invent shades for the windows.

Now, the same thing is happening with the wind energy. These rotors were invented for the land of Denmark where the land is all flat and mostly under water. So, the Maltese authorities are obsessed with the idea of building the wind farms on water. They forget that Malta is blessed with several hills, not flat like Denmark. The hills are bare, nothing grows on them because of the force of the wind that blows over them. Malta is a hilly country, from north to the extreme south. Bare hills that are useless except for this purpose of wind power.

But the wind rotor used for Denmark is not good for Malta. Malta has the world renowned wind power rotor used for more than a century worldwide with success, for pumping water and also electricity generator in the USA outback. If this old rotor is modernised and enlarged a little with variable pitch blades, varied automatically by modern means, they would be much better than the three thin blades of a spitfire. Those blades are fit for driving not to be driven. The law for wind power can never change whatever the “experts” say. The greater the sail, the greater the power.



Joseph S. Ellul

Zurrieq