Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windless") : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:23 am  

Seems a very odd idea to me

Seems a very odd idea to me

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:28 am  

When in doubt revert to modern colonialism

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:30 am  

cod'ead wrote:

When in doubt revert to modern colonialism

it does seem a bit that way.

(read your pm by the way)

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:32 am  

Ireland is reletively windless? not the last time I was there.

Also you do know that these turbines can't operate in high winds don't you? They need constant reasonably
low wind speeds to be effective.

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:34 am  

Big Graeme wrote:

Ireland is reletively windless? not the last time I was there.

Also you do know that these turbines can't operate in high winds don't you? They need constant reasonably
low wind speeds to be effective.

The article refers to the loaction as "relaitvely windless", try reading the link instead of the name of the poster?

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:40 am  

I have spoken with some people who I would include as nimbys who were perfectly happy to use lots of electricity and happy for massive power stations and strings of pylons to be built all over the place, providing it's not where they live.
These people need to take a reality check.

Nonetheless, whilst I am, on balance, in favour of wind turbines (and renewables in general), we do seem sometimes to be putting them in places where they should not be.

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:44 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Nonetheless, whilst I am, on balance, in favour of wind turbines (and renewables in general), we do seem sometimes to be putting them in places where they should not be.

I am absolutely in favour of renewables, but they have to be sustainable, having to build over-sized turbines in a part of Ireland that "isn't that windy" just seems nonsense to me, there's a "farm" of about 20 near where we live, if you believe some people you can hear then "churning the air every night", but that simply isn't true, you can hear them if you stand under them (and I have, and taken some quality photo's of the sun set through the blades), but you really cannot hear them 2 miles away. And if you can, how you manage to live in a house with a fridge, central heating and neighbours is beyond me.

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:56 am  

Standee wrote:

I am absolutely in favour of renewables, but they have to be sustainable, having to build over-sized turbines in a part of Ireland that "isn't that windy" just seems nonsense to me, there's a "farm" of about 20 near where we live, if you believe some people you can hear then "churning the air every night", but that simply isn't true, you can hear them if you stand under them (and I have, and taken some quality photo's of the sun set through the blades), but you really cannot hear them 2 miles away. And if you can, how you manage to live in a house with a fridge, central heating and neighbours is beyond me.

Couldn't agree more.
Would you agree that there are places, especially almost wild places, where turbines just don't belong?

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:14 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Couldn't agree more.
Would you agree that there are places, especially almost wild places, where turbines just don't belong?

I tend to have the same view on turbines as I do on most planning, if there is essentially a "built environment" then adding a few turbines is neither here nor there, if there's vast swathes of nothing, then it should remain as such. What makes no sense to me is building them in "relatively windless locations".

The best place to build a lot of them near us would be on the site of former pit heads, brown field sites and clear of trees all around, strangely enough, none of the residents want that to happen.

Re: Wind Turbines (to be built somewhere "relatively windles : Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:24 am  

Standee wrote:

The article refers to the loaction as "relaitvely windless", try reading the link instead of the name of the poster?

I did, I was questioning the article, not the poster there.
that persecution complex is coming along nicely I see...