At first I was fully behind wind turbines and the cleaner way of making electric. I could'nt understand why people disliked the sight of them.
But now we are becoming surrounded by them you find it hard to see the beauty of the scottish hills due to the flicker of a rotor on every top hill.
It is like living on the set of the film war of the worlds.
As for creating any local income, I know of not one local who has gained a steady job out of them. house prices are affected and I have even heard of rumours of using radioactive material in the base pads to kill off the peat so that the turbines dont sink.
May 04, 2010 Rating
Response by: Anonymous
Oh how right you are. I wonder how long it will take the politicians to realise this simple fact.
May 04, 2010 Rating
Paying through the nose - twice by: Robert Crosbie
At the expense of possibly opening up a huge can of worms, I would say that unless one is a Green fanatic, one will be aware that at the end of the day, windfarms are all about money, not power.
What many will not be so aware of, however, is that when it comes to power from windfarms you are paying for your electricity not once but twice. Not only are you paying for the (intermittent) power from turbines, but you are also footing the bill for keeping conventional sources on standby ready to kick in when wind speeds get too high or too low.
