keithski122
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I quite like the look of them, something calming about them.Horrible looking things an absolute blot on the landscape
I quite like the look of them, something calming about them.Horrible looking things an absolute blot on the landscape
I quite like the look of them, something calming about them.
I’m sensing deja-vu, coal is not the answer, or anything else that burns things.Would you prefer chimneys belching out smoke?
I quite like the look of them, something calming about them.
Plenty of those in China when I was there, as far as the eye could see they were!...going all day and night too....but as long as they aren't here I guess they're OKWould you prefer chimneys belching out smoke?
Interesting not heard this before, do you have a link?Interestingly, I was reading an article the other day (can't be arrissed looking for a link) about a project (Kickstarter?) to fit a small vertical turbine wind generator to each lamp post/sign post on motorways.
I *think* the figures suggested that just retrofitting them on the M1 would generate enough electric (from vehicle wind shear) to cover the UKs entire energy usage.
That's wind energy that is just, at the moment, generating tree movement and traffic noise.
I’m sensing deja-vu, coal is not the answer, or anything else that burns things.
No smoke from nuclear, it’s worked for many many decades, we should be investing in the next several decades now.
It’s a lack of investment over the past several decades which is why we are where we are now. With nuclear stations reaching the end of their life at the same time ……. And we’ve been planting windmills in the mean time.
Horrible looking things an absolute blot on the landscape
How many? Three times the number we have now obviously, on a good day.I don't mind the look of them...but how many would we need to power the whole of the UK I wonder....20,000?
...I was actually expecting that number to be a lot higher to be honest.
Edit...Except we already have 19,000....and thats generating 24%....hmm....going to need a lot more of them then?
When I lived in Aylesbury, they wanted to build one next to a new estate. They offered 20% off everyone's bill for 10 years. No complaints were lodgedI live near a good few wind farms and work around four of them. After a while you don’t notice them. I have two wind towers less than three hundred yards from my front door, you never hear them. They are within view of two villages, a dozen farms and lots of houses. When planning was put in for them, not one complaint was lodged. Yet build a windfarm on a hillside below the sky line and more than three miles from the nearest house and complaints pour in. It’s the white settlers that complain, they complain about cows mooing too !
I actually think thats the way it should be for everything like this...airports, power stations etc etc. People who live nowhere near the inconveniences of life should pay a little more and those that live next to said inconveniences should be subsidised....seems perfectly reasonable too me.They offered 20% off everyone's bill for 10 years. No complaints were lodged
And I’m far from anti windmills Kayos, but we’ve got them now by the spade load in Scotland, but we need something to compliment them when the wind ain’t blowing, and that’s not something with polluting chimneys. But it has to be something because often there’s no wind.I'm far from anti nuclear, a large reliable nuclear baseload would solve many, many of our energy problems.
Only way I can express my feelings would get this thread locked
I was wondering if the storage capacity in future might come from battery banks. Not huge banks sitting about in buildings...more likely millions of cars plugged into the grid. I can imagine if electric car range got to say 500+ miles then using them as spare capacity storage might become an optionbut we need something to compliment them when the wind ain’t blowing
Yes I have no problem with a smoking chimney and I love a diesel engine under full load chucking out the black smokeWould you prefer chimneys belching out smoke?
There’s always someone who likes a good wind-upYes I have no problem with a smoking chimney and I love a diesel engine under full load chucking out the black smoke
i think they can be built better and not just one unit thats been usedI quite like the look of them, something calming about them.
It's no wind -up it's the truthThere’s always someone who likes a good wind-up