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[verreauxi]

 

[orchard]

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Gone so far to the right that there is no wrong.

 

[orchard]

A lot of people are dead against wind farms and I get how they can ruin your favourite view and in some cases devalue property but you have to remember they aren’t going to be there forever in the same way coal power Is no longer used to the same degree here.
Landowners get paid an absolute fortune for having them on their land as well btw.

Three-quarters of Britons back expansion of wind power, poll reveals​

Survey suggests even Tory voters are unlikely to support Conservatives’ nuclear-first energy policy

Guardian

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Three-quarters of Britons back expansion of wind power, poll reveals​

Survey suggests even Tory voters are unlikely to support Conservatives’ nuclear-first energy policy

Guardian

Surprised at that to be honest. There’s loads where I used to live and always used to hear people grumbling that they were inefficient and an eyesore.

 

[orchard]

Surprised at that to be honest. There’s loads where I used to live and always used to hear people grumbling that they were inefficient and an eyesore.

Mate, of all the things that I can see from our front door, the windmills have pretty much the least subjective aesthetic impact of all the manmade artifices. Delivery drivers often comment that it's a lovely view here, and a few have even asked to eat their luncheon's in the courtyard (I obviously told them to do one). But each farm has it's telephone and electricity pylon going to it, and industrial sheds which I find much more visually offensive than the mills.

 

[Voodoo Billy]

Mate, of all the things that I can see from our front door, the windmills have pretty much the least subjective aesthetic impact of all the manmade artifices. Delivery drivers often comment that it's a lovely view here, and a few have even asked to eat their luncheon's in the courtyard (I obviously told them to do one). But each farm has it's telephone and electricity pylon going to it, and industrial sheds which I find much more visually offensive than the mills.

Same here mate, there's a significant nimby element round these parts (North Wales) who are dead against more onshore wind turbines due to their perceived detrimental aesthetic effect but they cream themselves with excitement at the news that a large portion of Snowdonia has been granted world heritage status because the slate industry has carved massive holes in numerous beautiful landscapes and dumped significant amounts of slate waste to accompany them. I studied landscape evaluation during a previous life and although these things are largely subjective I really don't find the wind turbines unsightly at all. Weirdly, I think pylons are much more intrusive just because they are connected to one and other.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Same here mate, there's a significant nimby element round these parts (North Wales) who are dead against more onshore wind turbines due to their perceived detrimental aesthetic effect but they cream themselves with excitement at the news that a large portion of Snowdonia has been granted world heritage status because the slate industry has carved massive holes in numerous beautiful landscapes and dumped significant amounts of slate waste to accompany them. I studied landscape evaluation during a previous life and although these things are largely subjective I really don't find the wind turbines unsightly at all. Weirdly, I think pylons are much more intrusive just because they are connected to one and other.

I would like to live in the pod at the top of one. Be amazing, plus no one would want to visit as they’d have to climb a few thousand steps. I’d be a king and also not have to worry about using all the hot water for a bath.

 

[Voodoo Billy]

I would like to live in the pod at the top of one. Be amazing, plus no one would want to visit as they’d have to climb a few thousand steps. I’d be a king and also not have to worry about using all the hot water for a bath.

There was a programme on the telly a few years back which showed aspects of working life in/on the English Channel and there was a piece about the wind turbines which showed the fellas climbing up to service one of them and sitting on top of one (securely tethered) enjoying their packed lunch on a glorious day.

 

[orchard]

 

[orchard]

 

[Lee Smith]

That link though…

 

[orchard]

That link though…

That's part of the reason I posted it mate

 

[Walken]

an interesting one

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, The Sun King of China

Peter Hadfield meets Huang Ming, the undisputed leader of China's booming solar industry.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WA Toffee]

The thing you've got to remember about Australia - our prime minister once went into parliament waving a piece of coal around. He would happily destroy the entire great barrier reef if it saved a dozen mining jobs (and has already gone some way to doing just that)

 

[orchard]

The thing you've got to remember about Australia - our prime minister once went into parliament waving a piece of coal around. He would happily destroy the entire great barrier reef if it saved a dozen mining jobs (and has already gone some way to doing just that)

Yeah, claiming it's clean when it literally had a thick transparent lacquer.

It's not just about you guys, carbon accounting is a massive grift.