Wind farm harvest helps boaters

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martyn78 said:
Yes, it will certainly help the locals, bit I struggle with is how a wind farm can possibly be "attractive"?
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how can you possibly think they are not? majestic giants slowly rotating on the horizon, signal masts of the future, metronomes for the music of the spheres. I just love watching them lazily turn, earning money & producing power.
 
martyn78 said:
How eloquent, but, I'm glad my world only has one moon!!:p
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That's your problem then, you can only see with your eyes, you lack the ability to use your soul as well.

Try working at it; everytime you are pee'd off by something, work out at least one positive aspect of the thing that is annoying you. in time you should be able to turn your life around.
 
I agree totally with searush
I am no tree hugger but we will run out of fossil fuel and offshore power is a distant windmill. they are not efficient enough yet but they create jobs, okay with massive subsidy but I would sooner see government money going into capital projects that create work in years rather than decades(hs2). people now preserve windmills and complain when their mobile phones do not work in areas where the residents fought the masts.
how can you complain that a windmill miles offshore ruins your day.
 
sailgoodthefaultless said:
I agree totally with searush
I am no tree hugger but we will run out of fossil fuel and offshore power is a distant windmill. they are not efficient enough yet but they create jobs, okay with massive subsidy but I would sooner see government money going into capital projects that create work in years rather than decades(hs2). people now preserve windmills and complain when their mobile phones do not work in areas where the residents fought the masts.
how can you complain that a windmill miles offshore ruins your day.
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+1

People who complain about offshore windfarms are lackwits.

If they want the 'wilderness experience' then let them go further offshore.

- W
 
I'm no ' lackwit ', I just disagree with you.

Wind farms do not signal the future, they signal a scam which the taxpayer is subsidising very heavily; without that no-one would be interested in these inefficient blots on the landscape and seagoing obstacles.
 
Seajet said:
I'm no ' lackwit ', I just disagree with you.

Wind farms do not signal the future, they signal a scam which the taxpayer is subsidising very heavily; without that no-one would be interested in these inefficient blots on the landscape and seagoing obstacles.
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I'm with seajet. Twice the cost per Mwh than CCGT and all the investment capital goes overseas. Scammerty scam scam.

Glad I'm not paying for it and sorry for those of you who are.
 
I'm a bit ambivalent over wind power: it earns me some money so I would be a bit hypocritical if I took a completely anti stance.

One point worth making is that the subsidies are not paid by the government but by electricity customers. The proportion of an electricity bill that is renewables subsidy is ever increasing. It is said (though I don't have any references) that for the average UK house the annual energy bill now exceeds the mortgage.
 
the answer to this is for everyone to use a bit less electricity -

really simple

not sure why its not talked about .... why is everything more more more ...
 
I too think windfarms are attractive; As in attractive like magnetic anomalies, wreckers lights and shallow reefs :0(

(They are about to put one in the way between us and France. I do believe that we have to stop burning fossil fuels and nuclear material at the current rate, but surely most of that can be achieved by using less in the first place? I don't know the lifetime carbon footprint of a windfarm, but suspect that it's not that encouraging... Of course the move from hydrocarbons to electricity for transport will make a huge surge in demand to counter all of the savings from LED lamps and insulating properties)
 
Seajet said:
I'm no ' lackwit ', I just disagree with you.

Wind farms do not signal the future, they signal a scam which the taxpayer is subsidising very heavily; without that no-one would be interested in these inefficient blots on the landscape and seagoing obstacles.
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exactamundo, heaven knows what initial damage they are doing to 'local' fish stocks from the considerable vibrations that are transmitted into the water,also most of the things are never working because of design faults/failures.
If they must put something in the water then go full ahead for tidal powered turbines,until then we need to press on with nuclear as the only really viable clean energy.
mind you would these windmillstones make good mooring posts
 
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