80% of the public support on-shore wind farms apparently
Survey source: a windfarm business
Whats yours given their need for near constant conventional back up?? Coal has seen a massive resurgence in Germany thanx to the idiotic decision of Merkels former government to ditch Nuclear in favour of wind
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/energy-crisis-fuels-coal-comeback-germany-2022-12-16/
He didn’t say that they were only ok if by a motorway. He said you could see them from the motorways. Not quite the same thing, eh?
Yes. It is inevitable if we ever want to become energy independent. I don’t like them, I think they look awful, but hey, I don’t like the stench of slurry and I’ve to put up euth that every day from the local intensive dairy farms.
it’s windmills or continuing to give power and money to some of the worst nations in the planet. Time for us all to own that, nimbys sit down, or be cold…..
Its an interesting question, I wonder what the poll results will be in 10 years time when the reality of >2000 extra turbines are surrounding the coastline and countryside.
Also I wonder about the corrolation between those voting yes and never actually having to have one in their vicinity.
What's the difference?
Maybe we could decorate them in sky blue mock wood lace over finish?
Do the trick on the eye sore?
Every party and independent in Ireland has a Green agenda.
You seem to have the hump because you got "no sweeteners" 😂
Also trying to label anyone that supports renewable energy as supporting the Green party is totally incorrect. People can fully support renewables and not have to support the Green party. Sort of rubbish comment I would expect to see in the US
I live in Dublin. The best chance we have of a wind farm is offshore. Would love to see the projects built in this area. Dublin is Ireland's largest energy consumer and yet produces virtually no renewable electricity.
I said no, but then we are already surrounded by quite a large number of them already here in North Kildare and into Offaly and they want to install many more on the surrounding bog of Allen that is no longer cut by BNM to feed Edenderry.
It says it all really that they threw them up around us and we were basically told to lump it. Rural roads torn asunder with heavy construction vehicles going back and forward.
Now that they want to put them tens of kilometres off the coastline of the likes of Dublin Bay South, they suddenly deem fit to announce this wonderful scheme known as a "Community Benefit Fund" whereby the generators must make a monetary contribution per MWh sold to the market to the nearest community.
Funny timing that.
Dublin has acres of roof space.
All offices should have solar panels on roof, warehouses etc and that could generate power. At this moment wind would not suit unless off shore in built up cities but solar should be across the city. Especially public building/schools etc
I've no idea why anyone would be bothered by them. They're going to be putting a load of them off the coast of Dalkey and Killiney in the coming years, the Dublin Array, so this will shut the "they wouldn't put them in South County Dublin!!" people up too. We need to get our elec from somewhere, nuclear will never happen in Ireland, so in order to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels, wind and solar seems a no brainer.
They should cover the Dublin/Wicklow mountains in them, much of them are just barren ecological wastelands of no use to anyone or anything.
Would you rather see a wind turbine from your kitchen window or a power station chimney ejecting black smoke into the atmosphere.
Unquestionably yes
No, they are devastating to the local environment. our new green future with nothing but concrete doesn’t appeal.
Too many of them f***ing yokes around here - a blight.
Build them up in Dublin Bay and off the coast of Malahide & Dalkey.
Well, I really don't know enough about any of them to give an informed answer. I don't think solar is really a viable solution in our climate, perhaps solar and wind combined? I certainly don't want us to increase coal/turf. More Hydro perhaps if we could find a suitable location.
Nuclear I think, has more cons than pros. I don't believe we'll ever have it here, not in it's current form anyway.
The main problem for wind in this county is NIMBY.
I live pretty close to a windfarm, I have no issue with it. There is a slight swishing sound on very windy days but I don't notice it any more, my brain has filtered it out. From what I can see there is a lot of NIMBY hysteria over them but from personal experience, they're grand.
They do seem to require a huge amount of maintenance, I guess that is normal due to the constantly moving parts however it leads me to wonder about offshore turbines. It's all very well being able to drive to the turbine to repair it but it's a completely different skillset when you have to take out a boat and transfer to a stationary platform offshore. That's no easy task when there is a swell running etc.
Plans to build loads of them there
I mean pretty much all of our environment is slurry covered fields producing dairy for export and people are cool with that. We need our own energy sources.
Noise, flicker, bird and bat strikes, property devaluation, but aside from those, all good.
Do you not see a pattern in some of the replies on this thread?
Those who vote NO have experience of living near industrial wind farms.
Those who vote YES think it's all mom & apple pie and don't live near the things (YET).
well there's planning applications to build loads of them offshore being processed at the moment, so hopefully the ones at sea wont bother you and will spoil the views in Dublin Bay to keep you ruralites happy.
it's not wind farms that are even in the ballpark of main threats to birds and bats on the island of ireland
As you well know, there's a world of difference between planning applications for infrastructure like this and them actually being built!!!!!!
incorrect
ive lived beside both a power station and a windfarm, and the difference is astronomical. imagine having to close your windows on certain days because the wind was blowing turf smoke from a power station to your house.
people complaining that wind turbines are eye sores are showing their privilege
you should go to one of the consultation meetings to show your support for this
one in Killiney in a couple of weeks, having their view disturbed would be a dream come true for rural ireland surely
Ah, rural Ireland is farms, MC mansions, Sitka spruce and lawns. It's not exactly useful for wildlife anyway.
People have to be given money to stop them killing things.
People don't give a **** about wildlife ... They only care about property valuation.
They pretend to care about nature when it suits them. Windfarm ... what about the bats ... 😁
Rural Ireland is not exactly Peig Sayers anymore.
She didn't have multiple 4K porn streams into the house on her fiber broadband.
😁😁😁😁
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However I would imagine that windfarms will be seen as a way to make a quick buck and could destroy more of the countryside. Can't see how this will be managed well in Ireland to be honest.
I live by the sea and there are plans to build an off-shore farm in the bay, not sure how many turbines though. One source says 55 and another says 25, either way I'm supportive.
We shouldn't even be having to discuss this. Wind farms should be primarily off shore.
@Capt'n Midnight - "Solar produces power during peak daily demand for sunny half the year."
While this is true and I don't want to take anything away from your argument, yesterday was a mostly rainy cloudy day with a bit of sun over here. In the first half of February. Yet my solar PV panels produced 20kWh. This is twice what an average Irish household uses per day. And I live in a very modest 3 bed semi D house in an estate in Lucan.
off shore all the way, far less resistance....
ok but ireland is never getting nuclear so it's pointless even mentioning it. look at how everyone freaks out over a nearby wind turbine, imagine trying to put a nuclear power plant somewhere lol. anyway we can't even build a few bus lanes without the country going into meltdown so why you always mention nuclear makes no sense to me.
Oh and horse up a few hydrogen generating stations on the coasts beside them too, we could export that and have a whole new string to our economic bow. Why not. There’s a cost for everything in this world and I’ve always said anything that saves humans time costs the earth, now it’s payback time. Get on with it.
