Three thoughts always come to mind when people complain about wind turbines 1) Would you rather live next door to a nuclear power station 2) if you think turbines look bad then you must think pylons look bad, in which case surely those should come down also? 3) if you are worried about birds then it’s a given that you won’t want trucks on the roads and you will be selling your car and motorbikes which kill many more than turbines? You will also be taking your cat to the vet to be put down? it’s really easy to be critical but consider the options without a nimby hat on and they then don’t seem that bad after all. one of my neighbours sold their house because they were putting turbines on the hilltops on the south side of the Clyde valley. On a clear day you could see them if you looked for them. Maybe 2 or three miles away. I never heard them, ever. my sister lived in Eaglesham near the Whitelees Windfarm which is 539MW and generates enough power for 350,000 homes, which is getting on for Glasgow and Edinburgh combined. She never heard them either. awesome is and overused word but stand underneath one of those turbine blades as it is powered by the wind and it really is an awesome sight. Fantastic engineering
i would have knuckled down with it Chris as long as it was above ground, i think i would have been like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape.
Wiston, South Lanarkshire I am now living in Symington, South Ayrshire. Back for the Yes vote. And Noobie said I couldn’t vote. Hahahahaha.
