Wind farms! Love em or hate em?

[LowFatMilkshake]

I personally feel they are an excellent way of generating energy without impacting the environment.

I am fed up with people complaining they damage the view or reduce house prices. I would be happy to live in the shadow of a turbine! People wont be around in years to come to enjoy the view if we dont so something about the environment now!

And I think a turbine is quite an attractive abstract thing and it makes a lovely soothing noise.

I love the look of them in Morcambe bay behind Piel Island
The modern behind the ancient castle-Cool!

Scroby Sands wind farm - that's a different one, LFM (another excursion for you, Gm!)

I think they look quite cool!

Jan, I'm going to have a busy summer! That beach looks like most of them in Suffolk - sand dunes and that itchy grass stuff Reminds me of biology field trips when we had to do quadrant surveys of what grew wear (that grass, more of that grass, and nothing else!!!)

I think they look beautiful - abstract & surreal - & I've been looking at the household ones in B&Q (£1498 fully fitted but you need planning permission & I suspect my neighbours would object). But I also think a lot of attention should be paid to where they're built, not 'cos of the view but 'cos of the wildlife impact. For example the proposed windfarm on Lewis would have an enormous impact on one of the few areas of peat bog left on the planet & this island supports huge amounts of wildlife.

I think they're dumb. They're unreliable because they only generate electricty when it blows so they are redundant a lot of the time, and they ruin the aesthetics of the environment. The best renewable source of power are tidal generators. The tide comes in and goes out like clockwork, and you can dump them on the seabed and no-one is any the wiser.