Paul3446

I couldn't believe this picture when I saw it, this sort of development is a disgrace.

The shocking picture that shows how a wind farm has disfigured one of Britain's loveliest landscapes | the Daily Mail

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

'We don't agree that the wind turbines are an eyesore, they are a feat of engineering and do not spoil the landscape.'

Obviously not seen the picture then

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Something odd there: the so-called before and after pics have an entirely different sky-line.........and I don't mean the turbines.

TBH, the turbine pic looks as if it's been taken through a long lens, foreshortening the distances, making the turbines look so much closer.

Alcazar

speedymonkey

I agree totally, they look bloody terrible
But at least its providing a renewable energy source so thats ok to some eh

jimmyv

I actuall kind of like the aesthetics of wind farms (yes, possibly not if it was the first thing i saw everyday) but i have to agree there is a time and place, and that doesn't look the place.

Torquemada

That looks w@nk. They've totally messed up my birth place!!

Paul3446

When's this global warming sh*t gonna just end, I find it's affecting more and more things now.

jimmyv

It wont, they will just change things around as soon as people start realising its not the issue that its made it to be. Same as them changing it from global warming to climate change when people started complaining about no summers etc.

David Lock

I've only ever seen them in white. I wonder if they painted them the same colour as the hillside they would be less obtrusive?

And they take out so many seabirds

jimmyv

Iirc the colour was to with the protective coating as they are nearly always located in harsh environments, but interesting point im suprised no-one has tried it as it may solve a whole lot of problems and opposition.

*runs off and quickly checks all patents pending*

Paul3446

David will sue you, he thought of it first!

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

exactly what I thought! where has the mountain gone in the first pic with turbines? also all the buildings in the foreground in the 2nd pic are missing in the 1st pic.

jimmyv

who me? , never said anything

Paul3446

It's just taken from a different angle, look at the church on the left to get your bearings, or the angle of the white building on top of the hill.

The mountain in the bottom picture would be off to the left in the top picture.

RB5_245

Looks like a photoshop effort, or those turbines are about 1km high each

David Lock

Just got back from my lawyers........

Bit late as I stopped off to get a can of Hillside Green

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(and a ladder)

jonc

They must have all melted away, just like the polar ice caps!

Steve001

iTrader: (7)

i have been thinking of the 'global warming' issue for a while now, does anyone know how many trees it would take to cancel out the co2 from say a scooby, i heard that trees love the stuff

Lets say for aruements sake that it would take 10 good sized trees......well why dont we as a country undertake a massive reforestation on all the land that is sitting idle? we used to have huge forests and so did a lot of other countries. personally i think most of the so called global warming is in part directly related to the loss of rain forests an other green areas.

steve (not a tree hugger BTW)

David Lock

Can't do that as all the spare land will be used to grow crops to produce biofuel

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I quite like windfarms, we got up close and personal with one last summer, the turbines are HUGE when you get up close If you stand under the blades and look up you think that they're going to cut your head off

This is me and a wind turbine in Wales, as you can see it's quite big:

Tam the bam

Similar width to you though!

*Runs away*

skoobidude

Once every one converts to wind energy then what? Won't the government find a way of taxing wind? We won't be able to fart without a tax disc branded onto our buttocks!

I'm all in for recycling and not landfilling. Can see sense in that but some of the other stuff like building houses out of straw in the woods and wearing trousers made of tree bark is barmy.

'mentalists. Short for Environmentalists!

Nick

AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

All we need is some pseudo-scientific 'evidence' that wind farms are bad for some endangered kind of worm... should be fun to watch them squirm anyhow

skoobidude

Wind farms are bad for wind as they unsettle it's flow..

Martin2005

Probably just after the oil runs out, we need to develop sustainable energy supplies, regardless of GW.

I suggest burning the Daily Mail as a way of generating energy

Tam the bam

It'll never end while the muppets can use it as a way to gain revenue from you and I! However within time the sheep who believe that using a car to get from a to b is one of the only causes of gw see the light, I'm sure it will disappear just like all the other bullsh!t the muppets have thrown at us in the past, but I think they'll be struggling to find yet another doomsday fallacy which will net the kind of revenue that the climate change bollocks has!

jonc

Carbon offseting by planting trees doesn't work since when the tree dies, it just releases the "absorbed" carbon back into the environment. Besides how do you how much CO2 a tree is absorbing in its constantly changing environment?

jimmyv

Hah Classic, beat me too it *curses work*

Steve001

iTrader: (7)

i far as know (and thats not much ) trees convert co2 into oxagen(sp)

Tam the bam

I thought that too! well till you cut the ******* down and burn them that is!

And it'd spelt Oxygen only one letter wrong so