Beautiful Wind Turbines!?

Sam Quentin

Why do the keyboard warriors love wind turbines all of a sudden?
:P

whiskeyman

Coz they're big fans...

Skedaddle

Some wind turbines do look stunning though. They can be really elegant and quite relaxing to watch.

A bit of good architecture and landscape planning could actually make them into features.

Mint Sauce

Sam Quentin wrote: »

Why do the keyboard warriors love wind turbines all of a sudden?
:P

It will blow over.

Skedaddle

When you think about though, our whole landscape is artificial. In its wild state, there are no fields, no grazing lands - it wold be all scrub and forrest.

Also we look at big pieces of victorian infrastructure like bridges, canals and viaducts as 'pretty' yet modern pieces like a wind turbine as somehow being an imposition on the landscape.

We change out environment and pepper it with technology. So, I don't really see why wind turbines need to be seen as a negative thing if they're done right.

kneemos

Said it before, put them all in one place not scattered across every hillside.

Donald Trump

Mint Sauce wrote: »

It will blow over.

It's a load of hot air really

Mr. Incognito

One turns hot air into energy

One turns hot air into negativity

buried

Sooner look after and want something that could generate our own energy and money from our own resources rather than some soon to be dead foreign celebrity business man that doesn't actually give a monkeys hole about what actually happens to our own country here, only what happens his pockets

Graces7

Skedaddle wrote: »

When you think about though, our whole landscape is artificial. In its wild state, there are no fields, no grazing lands - it wold be all scrub and forrest.

Also we look at big pieces of victorian infrastructure like bridges, canals and viaducts as 'pretty' yet modern pieces like a wind turbine as somehow being an imposition on the landscape.

We change out environment and pepper it with technology. So, I don't really see why wind turbines need to be seen as a negative thing if they're done right.

They are an eyesore, hum, and kill birds.

Skedaddle

Sure he probably would be grand with a nice coal burning power station on the Burren as long as it powered his golf resort.

Graces7

Skedaddle wrote: »

When you think about though, our whole landscape is artificial. In its wild state, there are no fields, no grazing lands - it wold be all scrub and forrest. "

Sounds like the area of north west mayo where I live. Utterly lovely . Bleak and unspoilt. Long may it remain so.

Oldtree

Yea right turbine right place. In towns, industrial estates, airports.
Micro turbines on all dwellings and buildings. Esb to allow fair unit used to unit produced offset using smart meters.
Offshore well out of sight, and not on our reefs.

As a tourist reliant nation, they don't come to see the turbines, they come to see the ideal they expect to see.

No export only turbines, do I sound like I have an agenda.

the_syco

Graces7 wrote: »

They are an eyesore, hum, and kill birds.

Agreed. Give me a nuclear power plant any day over a couple a hundred windmills.... :pac:

Oldtree

the_syco wrote: »

Agreed. Give me a nuclear power plant any day over a couple a hundred windmills.... :pac:

Why bother when we can import nuclear power from the UK and France?

Graces7

the_syco wrote: »

Agreed. Give me a nuclear power plant any day over a couple a hundred windmills.... :pac:

:rolleyes:

kumate_champ07

Oldtree

Skedaddle wrote: »

When you think about though, our whole landscape is artificial. In its wild state, there are no fields, no grazing lands - it wold be all scrub and forrest.

Also we look at big pieces of victorian infrastructure like bridges, canals and viaducts as 'pretty' yet modern pieces like a wind turbine as somehow being an imposition on the landscape.

We change out environment and pepper it with technology. So, I don't really see why wind turbines need to be seen as a negative thing if they're done right.

Yes we have a managed landscape, no escaping that. The aesthetics of turbines and their size, which is now approaching monumental, is somewhat different to the slightly smaller victoriana you mention.

kumate_champ07

they had a mcdonlads ad placed into that movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdvO0tmNjGo

so why not the same for the wind turbine industry, that scene stuck in my mind from childhood

GMSA

Graces7 wrote: »

They are an eyesore, hum, and kill birds.

You think turbines are an eyesore. Wait till the solar generation gets going then you'll have acres upon acres of glaring eyesore.

LirW

Mimimi we want clean and renewable energy but please not where we live.
I live in an area with a lot of them and they now put some up on the hills where I have some really nice view on. They don't bother me.