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Originally Posted by rossy  well put picidae its pure ignorance by some folk and herd i aint a dead sparrow im alive and kicking. tell me why are the energy people on about putting our bills up by 60% if your windfarms are viable. its absolute bull your just another sheep as far as i can see and believe anything your told. read it as it is they kill birds destroy habitat and are of no use . rossy. |
One of the biggest irritations for me is that just about everyone agrees that we need to be looking towards sustainable energy. However, because so many people dislike wind farms they would rather we suspend any such development until we can resolve the argument about which strategy will be most efficient. Imagine if we had taken the nuclear option from the beginning with the potential for every plant to be a Chernobyl. As Picidae rightly pointed out, first generation wind farms were a nightmare but what was missed in the post is that we now have that information to help mitigate against the problems caused. I am sure most people want to see renewable sources of energy but to me the argument seems to be No Wind Power and therefore, No Renewable Energy until we have something better. Reduced to this level, I simply do not understand the argument because we do not have the luxury of time to debate whilst doing nothing at all.
Incidentally, high tension cables have been around for decades and they can be every bit as destructive to bird life, particularly in bad weather. What many people do not realise is that lighthouses and plumes on gas rigs are also major hazards but little is ever mentioned about this.