420ft windfarm in Towcester

[Kayleigh]

A massive windfarm is being proposed for Towcester nr Northants..

News - Local News: Towcester and the villages in NN12 (NN12)

This could be your doorstep next..

[fairplay]

I live about one and a half miles from Sizewell A, B, and the soon to be built C & D Nuclear Power stations - those that do not appreciate the beauty of wind farms can swap with my monstosity any day.

Neil.

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by fairplay

I live about one and a half miles from Sizewell A, B, and the soon to be built C & D Nuclear Power stations - those that do not appreciate the beauty of wind farms can swap with my monstosity any day.

Neil.

Yes but there are wind farms and wind farms but these will be towering Big Ben by 100 ft imagine that size in a small Town..
I can sympathise with you as I would not want a nuclear plant near me either.
Wind farms are not exactly clean either the way they extract the mettles to make the magnates they need to run, they pollute the earth while being extracted.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Yes but there are wind farms and wind farms but these will be towering Big Ben by 100 ft imagine that size in a small Town..
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Mmmm - if built the turbines will be out in farmland, not in the town.
I think it ironic that the photograph includes am ugly pylon and electrical wiring for size comparison!

[The Woodman]

And maybe a flawed comparison at that. We cannot determine the distance of the pylon.

[wanlock dod]

Personally I'd far sooner see a windfarm than a nuclear power station, coal-fired power station, open cast coal mine, waste incineration plant.......

There are 152 of these going up in Clydesdale for the first phase of a new windfarm, which makes the on enear Towcester seem pretty insignificant.

Kayleigh do you think that the extraction of materials for wind turbine construction is any more damaging than that required for the construction of conventional power stations, or the fuel that they require?

Images of contemporary fuel extraction for power generation:
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Makes coal power stations look like such a nice proposition doesn't it. Surely they pollute while being constructed, pollute by accessing fuel, and pollute when producing power. What could possibly be better?

[Dorts]

The problem is, like it or not, that nuclear and conventional power stations produce power on demand 24/7.
No-one has a clue when a wind farm will, and that will never change, unless the power can be stored.
Dorts.

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by Dorts

The problem is, like it or not, that nuclear and conventional power stations produce power on demand 24/7.
No-one has a clue when a wind farm will, and that will never change, unless the power can be stored.
Dorts.

Not strictly true Dorts, recently (last year ?) when Sizewell 'B' had a 'minor' problem, it was shut down for around 6 months while they were waiting for a replacement part to arrive. But overall, I must admit Nuclear is the most reliable, but it has to be built where it is, not because it needs to be on the coast where a regular cooling water supply is (otherwise it could be built at Battersea) but because LESS PEOPLE WILL DIE if anything major goes wrong.

Neil.

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by fairplay

.....it has to be built where it is, not because it needs to be on the coast where a regular cooling water supply is (otherwise it could be built at Battersea) but because LESS PEOPLE WILL DIE if anything major goes wrong....

Neil,

I respect your right to your opinion, but I can't let you get away with posting statements such as this. What you have said here is complete and utter tosh!

Just browse the interactive map of nuclear power plant locations worldwide:-
Worldwide map of nuclear power stations and earthquake zones | maptd
(zoom in to suitable scale and then click on any of the blue spots for details of the associated nuclear plant), and and you will see that a great many are inland, in large population areas.

Of all forms of commercial scale electrical generation, civilian nuclear power has the best safety record in the world - bar none - and by some considerable margin - fact! (Even cursory searching for comparisons of deaths per TWh for all energy sources will bring up the statistics).

I really do wish that people would take the trouble to find out the actual truth about civilian nuclear energy, rather than keep on propagating the same old hearsay and halftruths.

Regards,
Mike.

[fairplay]

Hi Mike,

I cannot see where we are in disagreement ? I am not claiming Sizewell A & B are built any where near an earthquake zone, nor am I claiming they are built where the sea is likely to threaten them.

But ideally a power station needs to be built close to the hub of the population which is why Battersea was built all those years ago.
Naturally, they ain't going to put Sizewell where Battersea is, not because the old station is listed but purely on the the grounds of public safety.
We all know Nuclear Power stations have excellent safety records but where something does go wrong, it can and does go wrong in a big and unpredictable way.

it is that unpredictability that frightens a lot of people.
I hardly think that is ''tosh'' Mike.

Neil.