tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post6493627326974756220..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: How green is my valley?The bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-30185540538355866102014-06-24T09:22:14.371+01:002014-06-24T09:22:14.371+01:00If you think "unbolting" them is that si...If you think "unbolting" them is that simple you haven't done much research. Thousands of older turbines sit abandoned in America. The cement pads full of rebar are pragmatically impossible to remove. Access road scars would remain, anyhow. I think wind-pushers simply care more about people and cities than nature, which is a crime against nature itself.E.A.http://enough_already.tripod.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-21447046627401194242014-06-24T09:16:10.277+01:002014-06-24T09:16:10.277+01:00If vandals ran amok through Europe's museums, ...If vandals ran amok through Europe's museums, splattering wind turbine shapes in white industrial paint on historic landscape art, there would be instant outrage. But when the same desecration occurs on a much larger scale in REAL landscapes, it's "green" progress? How did values get so twisted?E.A.http://enough_already.tripod.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-86708165374921350902011-10-30T12:05:31.142+00:002011-10-30T12:05:31.142+00:00Sorry, totally disagree with your views on windfar...Sorry, totally disagree with your views on windfarms. They may not be the solution to our carbon addicted lifestyle, but I think they are part of the solution. Once we have worked out better ways (eg tidal power) we can unbolt them and recycle the materials and the landscape will be back as it was. I do not think you can say the same about any other means of energy production. <br /><br />Siting them off-shore pushes up the price of production.Garethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02934815324663747822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-87739815815144509242011-10-29T17:44:44.960+01:002011-10-29T17:44:44.960+01:00If this says Anonymous it is me - Cait O'Conno...If this says Anonymous it is me - Cait O'Connor - for some reason it will not allow me access to comment under my email address which is fairly new - should I inform you of it Mark?<br /><br />Anyway.....thank you for your good wishes....<br /><br />I have mixed feelings about these wind thingies. I actually think in small doses they look rather beautiful but I would definitely not want the whole of Wales to be covered by them. Wales has always been exploited for whatever - valleys were flooded in the Elan Valley to supply water to England for example. Farms and huge areas of beautiful mountain taken over to make army ranges....etc....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-30180583929940214462011-10-27T09:08:35.422+01:002011-10-27T09:08:35.422+01:00I don't really mind them in the sense that if ...I don't really mind them in the sense that if you accept that we NEED electricity, then we need a means to produce it.<br /><br />In my job I get to visit lots of power stations and having been to gas, coal and nuclear installations I can honestly say that if we have to have something to produce electricity then I'd rather have a wind farm on the hill opposite my house than a power station.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-43808006920740558082011-10-24T20:19:07.887+01:002011-10-24T20:19:07.887+01:00Hello Mark,
Just received a heads up from Kath, an...Hello Mark,<br />Just received a heads up from Kath, and she suggested after my last blog post, http://murphyfish-musing.blogspot.com/2011/10/favor-to-ask-of-you.html <br />to introduce myself. So er hello<br />Johnmurphyfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382223977388631947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-46372710159485454522011-10-24T15:44:38.708+01:002011-10-24T15:44:38.708+01:00An interesting piece. Energy production has always...An interesting piece. Energy production has always been an expensive business and in the past that has been at the expense of peoples' lives and the environment in which they live. In comparison, wind turbines seem comparatively soft - but I agree with you in that it is unfair that an area which was ravaged by the last phase of energy production should have to deal with this one as well. I tend to favour the Kensington and Chelsea Nuclear Power Plant option myself.Alan Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01015127443616786425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-4297309845022779992011-10-23T22:34:02.719+01:002011-10-23T22:34:02.719+01:00I loathe the dratted things. Flying over Spain you...I loathe the dratted things. Flying over Spain you can see them on what seems like every hill crest...and they've desecrated Lake Nicaragua by putting up these monstrosities alongside.<br />Brother in law, chartered electrical engineer, says they give off 'dirty' electricity which costs as fortune to put into the grid...so they are, as I've always suspected, a con as well as an aesthetic crime.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-40287100485161827552011-10-21T15:35:44.600+01:002011-10-21T15:35:44.600+01:00Maybe we should consider going back to the days be...Maybe we should consider going back to the days before we had electric and enjoy going to bed at dark and getting up when the rooster crows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-43096973156783564902011-10-19T16:56:48.380+01:002011-10-19T16:56:48.380+01:00I hate them on the land and kind of like them on t...I hate them on the land and kind of like them on the sea... go figure?<br />on the land..they look...hummm rather untidy and out of sorts.....John Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-73739193052223427172011-10-17T21:20:48.140+01:002011-10-17T21:20:48.140+01:00Meant 'complimentary', hopefully obviously...Meant 'complimentary', hopefully obviously!Doofushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368086816490113661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-87631947363915214422011-10-17T21:19:14.297+01:002011-10-17T21:19:14.297+01:00What I love most about this post is the passion.
...What I love most about this post is the passion.<br /><br />I find the valleys an interesting place. I've a number of friends who live in the area and it reminds me a little of where I live now. But I think it has a very peculiarly welsh strangeness about it, which I mean in the most complicated way possible. When I think of the valleys I always think of the young Manic Street Preachers, in Blackwood, dreaming of rock and roll and America. <br /><br />I'm don't know how I feel about the wind farms. They don't interupt the view in the same way that Pylons do. And they do have a futuristic and clean image in my head when I look at them. I think when it is the odd few in the distance, then it doesn't look so bad, and they make strangely inspiring places to drive to in the middle of the night (I had a strange youth). However I would hate to see them spread in any great abundance across the 'desert of wales'.Doofushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368086816490113661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-58250010248015415572011-10-17T13:20:18.514+01:002011-10-17T13:20:18.514+01:00There is so much debate about wind turbines... Co...There is so much debate about wind turbines... Countryfile last night had one. I have always said that if I had been given the choice of a housing estate, albeit a very nice one, in the fields behind my house, and several wind turbines, I'd have gone for the latter. I don't find them offensive, and you could argue that I don't know what I'm talking about since the nearest is out in the North Sea, visible from Hunstanton sea front given the right conditions. I have stood underneath one, our nearest Waitrose has one at the edge of its car park, the techno place at Swaffham. I stand and gaze in amazement at it, hear the noise, none of it bothers me. The sight of previous green fields with turbines on isn't an abomination to me, nor the amount that are going to be built off the coast of Essex. I find the technology amazing, how it all works fascinates me. It seems obvious to me that they would be built in wild places, little to stop the wind they need. I don't find them ugly, but majestic and beautiful. But you will probably argue I'm talking out of my backside, since they're not in my back yard. But I wouldn't object if they were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-37563182588065557792011-10-17T07:58:07.953+01:002011-10-17T07:58:07.953+01:00Wales has long been a sacred place to my wife and ...Wales has long been a sacred place to my wife and me so we will be saddened to see it pimpled with wind turbines. To my mind the most logical place for windfarms is out at sea. It is windier, there is more space and they can be combined with hydro-generators.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-65007891163867161982011-10-17T00:08:34.251+01:002011-10-17T00:08:34.251+01:00It is the gift of an artist to be compassionate ab...It is the gift of an artist to be compassionate about all things, from painting to writing ..wind turbines included. We love our landscape and I agree about the wind turbines.."their impact is far greater than the land they stand on". And like you..rarely do I see them moving. <br /><br />Now for something even more cruel...a turbine buried in our sea, in the Bay of Fundy in Canada where there is discussion on whether the whale found dead might have been involved in the broken blades incident.<br /><br />http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/06/11/ns-fundy-tidal-blades.html<br /><br />Oh what "they" do to our environment..no wonder the protests. <br /><br />But the writer can write, and the listener will evaluate the message.<br /><br />"Will Self" seems to have the most appropriate name...in reverse.Gardeningbrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709940044197929905noreply@blogger.com