On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:06:02 +0100, wrote
(in article . com):

Andy Hall wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:11:30 +0100, David Hansen wrote
(in article ):
On 11 Jul 2006 00:20:01 -0700 someone who may be
wrote this:-

If the only change is the appearance of the lanscape thats a miniscule
cost

Defaced is also a matter of personal prejudice.

Prejudice is an emotionally loaded word which rather suggests that you feel
a
need to defend the industrial deployment of your technology.


As is shown by
http://www.bwea.com/media/photo/res/...osstractor.jpg most
of the land can be used as before.


That just shows an ugly industrial windmill in front of a field being
ploughed and a landscape with low rolling hills.
Subtract the industrial windmill and it would look great


These sort of appearance objections are like little children saying
they dont want to go to school cos its cold outside. While I can
sympathise ya still got to get real.


NT


I don't think it's an issue of reality and sympathy at all.

The pretence of the green lobby is that these things are nice and cuddly and
don't have any impact.

The reality is that they do and are industrial in nature. They don't blend
in with the landscape or the environment and should be subject to the same
strict planning controls and public enquiries that any other major industrial
development gets.

Instead of this, we have planning authorities acting as judge and jury in
their own cause because the same organisation has jurisdiction over planning
and energy policy. We have promoters of these industrial wind sites using
coercion to bully said organisations into moving more quickly than is proper.

In order to produce worthwhile amounts of electricity, there would need to be
massive deployments of these industrial sites to the point that one would not
be able to travel any significant distance before seeing them.

With the demise of the major textile, steel production and heavy industries,
their paraphernalia was removed because chimneys and other vestiges were
deemed ugly.

I am sure that by 2030, we will have TV programs with a latter-day Fred
Dibnah blowing up these windmills to entertain the kiddies. I shall be
pleased to help him place the charges.