On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:39:09 +0100 someone who may be Peter Scott
wrote this:-

so would satisfy those, like
myself, who don't want to see tracts of beautiful countryside spoiled by
industrial equipment.

When hydro schemes were built in Scotland people went on and on
about how beautiful countryside would be destroyed. It didn't
happen. There are hydro schemes in Glen Affric (probably the most
beautiful bit of countryside in the UK). The artificial loch, dam
and power station at Pitlochry is an asset to tourism.

Wind turbines don't spoil the view in Scotland. Even in large
numbers, IIRC the 14 at Whitelee are the largest installation at the
moment, they are puny in comparison to the scale of the countryside
and are items of great beauty in themselves. Anyway the views in
most of Scotland are entirely industrial, a natural view would
involve putting back the trees humans removed. Shooting moors and
farms are industrial landscapes.


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