On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:08:30 +0000 someone who may be Andy Hall
wrote this:-

The environmental impact of a wind farm is *not* very low. The
windmills are worse than having power pylons marching across the
countryside, and that's bad enough. In order to generate worthwhile
amounts of energy, vast numbers would be required and they would be
completely unacceptable environmentally.

Ah, proof by assertion again.

The environment does include visual amenity.

And there we have it. No rational argument, but instead an argument
relating solely to appearance (no matter how it is dressed up). Glad
we have got there at last.

I like their visual appearance (and I have seen the largest wind
farm currently operating in the UK at Black Law), but opinions vary.
That is why surveys are carried out.
http://www.bwea.com/pdf/briefings/attitudes05-small.pdf is a
gathering of some of these surveys. There is a small (but loud)
minority against them.

I'm sure much the same sort of people objected to the "visual
intrusion" of hydro-electric stations and the associated
transmission lines in Scotland some decades ago. Very few people now
complain about them.






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