Wind-farms may be built across Englands's only Natural World Heritage site! (county, places)

[Jezer]

I came across this news item today and thought it was a joke at first as I couldn't work out how the energy would be transferred.

However that is explained in the Mirror's version of the item;

Massive African solar project could provide cheap power to 2.5 million UK homes - Mirror Online

[Jas182]

Originally Posted by Ghengis

the wires to connect back here could tangle up passing space stuff and would likely interfere with the rotation of the earth if not pull the moon into us as the wires wrapped around and around

not sure how it would be done. But I don't think wires will be used... Energy will be beamed down to earth...

[Ameriscot]

Wind farms are a eye sore.

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This is an eye sore..



This is beautiful..



This is attractive..



This is ugly..





Wind farms being an 'eye sore' is not a valid reason not to build them - power has to be generated from somewhere, and it's going to blight the landscape whether you like it or not, but to me, wind farms and solar panels look rather scenic and peaceful, compared to massive cooling towers or hideous fracking sites.

A huge wind turbine has been put up in Leeds - really massive thing. Looks a hell of a lot better than a cooling tower or chimney.

111014_Temple newsam Oct 11 2014_4700PAN2 by ShakeyDave, on Flickr

[Ghengis]

If you look at a wind turbine with your head moving in a circle while staring at a single blade, it appears to be keeping still. I wonder if that technique would help birds from flying into the blades. stupid birds.

[Jas182]

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

This is beautiful..

At least it's in one location, whereas wind farms are spreaded out everywhere and makes the country look less natural... Though yea I get your drift.

[oddstray]

I don't think a row of wind turbines, as is often seen in SoCal, is so horribly ugly. Or even a wind farm, as long as it's "over there".

But then I went down into the Imperial Valley. There is an immense field of wind farms surrounding the highway. It's seriously ugly!

[SouthCitySam]

Originally Posted by Ameriscot

Wind farms are a eye sore.

They are a blight on the landscape. Even more so on those rare occasions that they are actually spinning.

[archineer]

Well let's not build any wind (or solar) farms, and the NIMBYs can just go without electricity as we start running out of fossil fuels.

[John-UK]

The UK has no natural landscape. All is man made.