Reply to: Another wind farm...

[hyperD]

What a bollocks eye-straining graph.

I was kind of expecting Colonel Sanders to make the top of that list.

[pjclarke]

[SpontaneousOrder]

FTFY

If they aren't economically viable (or ecologically) then fine. I don't know the details.
Assuming that they were, though, I'd be amazed that so many people don't like them.

[hyperD]

That's what the guy from G2 argued at the council meeting. 25 years & it would be decommissioned.

Though the council planning officer, who backed the proposal, had to admit that after 25 years the site would be classified as a brownfield site & it would never return to just being a field.

Exactly. The reason being that they might remove the useless sticking out bit, but the thousands of tonnes of concrete will not be removed (as can be seen by a previous picture I posted).

[wurzel]

Wind turbines don't have a particularly long life so they'll be rusty eye sores within 20 years.

That's what the guy from G2 argued at the council meeting. 25 years & it would be decommissioned.

Though the council planning officer, who backed the proposal, had to admit that after 25 years the site would be classified as a brownfield site & it would never return to just being a field.

[BlasterBates]

Wind turbines don't have a particularly long life so they'll be rusty eye sores within 20 years.

[hyperD]

I think the turbines are beautiful things. They're elegant and are a monument to human stupidity.

FTFY

[BlasterBates]

You always have to remember their purpose is not to produce electricity, they never will produce any sensible amount of electricity, they have a symbolic purpose. They're there to make people feel better.

People drive past and think "ah we're saving the planet" and completely ignore the unchanging emissions curve.

All the coal and gas being produced will get consumed regardless of how many wind turbines are stuck up.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I think the turbines are beautiful things. They're elegant and are a monument to human ingenuity.

[SantaClaus]

I found another wind farm here...



All that methane sure does give off a stink.

[wurzel]

Some goods new to report on this (if you don't like wind farms, that is).

Got voted down unanimously 11-0. They cited visual impact on landscape and knock on effect to tourism, threat to heritage assets and local ecology (horseshoe bats, peregrine falcons etc).

But here's the real clincher:

[hyperD]

Here's a 900 tonne concrete base for one of those 3MW useless feckers:



Try digging that up.

[EternalOptimist]

So they'd rather have watched it being chewed up alive by a cat? Bastards.

DUCK

[Mich the Tester]

Twitchers flocking to see rare bird saw it killed by wind turbine - Telegraph

"It was seen by birders fly straight into the turbine. It is ironic that after waiting so long for this bird to turn up in the UK, it was killed by a wind turbine and not a natural predator

So they'd rather have watched it being chewed up alive by a cat? Bastards.

[Spacecadet]

Twitchers flocking to see rare bird saw it killed by wind turbine - Telegraph

Could have been worse (for the bird)

BBC NEWS | England | Twitchers accused of bird's death