Alan_D wrote:I am interested (and a little surprised) by the responses your post has provoked in TOP.
I am led to conclude that some of them are motivated by envy. ("We have to do our sailing in places blighted by industrial development, so why shouldn't you?")
Aye, I was a bit surprised . . . it's really a bit odd that even anti-GW conspiracy theorists seem to feel obliged to defend wind farms.
When he was climate change secretary last year the junior millipede attended a screening of 'The Age of Stupid' in London where he said:
Ed Milliband wrote:'The government needs to be saying, 'It is socially unacceptable to be against wind turbines in your area - like not wearing your seatbelt or driving past a zebra crossing'
I nearly chucked. Problem is, we are too far down the wind turbine route - if people find out they are fundamentally flawed there will be trouble. They are big and show that something is being done, and of course there are no votes in the country as so few of us live there any more - and city dwellers who come out to play have been convinced that they are 'graceful' etc.
I agree with Lovelock when he says:
James Lovelock wrote:If wind energy were the one practical and affordable answer to global heating then I would grit my teeth at the loss of the countryside and accept it."
lovely boats btw) are a better way of extracting energy from the wind.
