Fighting climate change causes climate change

[Scoobos]

look comparitively pretty to me, compared to a bloody great chimney bellowing grey smoke out.

[d000hg]

That's the second biggest problem. The sight of them everywhere in what is supposed to be nature's countryside is the biggest problem.

How many flour mills are/were there?

In the flourmill age, when you look up at the moors, did you see something like this?



Or this?



Or this?

Beautiful. I'd rather see a windmill than a tower block.

[Diver]

Beautiful. I'd rather see a windmill than a tower block.

This makes sense, since at night the ground becomes much cooler than the air just a few hundred meters above the surface, and the wind farms generate gentle turbulence near the ground that causes these to mix together, thus the ground doesn't get quite as cool. This same strategy is commonly used by fruit growers (who fly helicopters over the orchards rather than windmills) to combat early morning frosts.”


Pictured: The stunning 'micro-climate' of sea fog created around one of Britain's windfarms | Mail Online

Retired garage owner Mike Page, 70, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk, who captured the scene from his Cessna 150 light aircraft, said: 'The spinning blades whip moisture into the air like giant egg mixers 'It definitely occurs several times a year, sometimes gathering upwind of the turbines and sometimes downwind depending on the conditions.

Ah! so they cause fog even befor the wind gets to them

[hyperD]

Behind every tax-payer subsidised windfarm lies a tax-payer subsidised CCGT on spinning standby burning fossil fuel.

Behind every photoshopped picture of a cooling tower billowing black, wicked smoke, lies a cooling tower venting steam while a CCGT goes into spinning standby.