Oliver {L_WROTE}:
HKE and the government regulators are behaving as if noone in the whole world has ever built a wind turbine before!!! (Ooh, we must be careful!)
Here they are with one poky 800kW (if that) turbine while the Danes are now busy building offshore and onshore wind farms with dozens and dozens of 6MW (8x more powerful) turbines hooked straight into the grid and expected to produce 10% of their national demand soon.
It certainly looks like a public relations exercise from here. It is a toe clipping’s-length step in the right direction, while at the same time they take the long jump in the opposite direction by building that horrible extra chimney and generators next to our lovely local coal heaps.
Now let us all bow our heads and say the SAR Prayer:
Our landfill dug from mountains
Hollowed be thy borrow areas.
May our jobs and positions remain carved in stone
And do those things the way we always have done them.
We pray to the white elephant that it may be our savior
In times of trouble.
We will ignore simple straightforward solutions regardless of temptation.
Complicate, Resist, Disseminate and Obfuscate.
For ever and ever.
Amen
To illustrate Oliver's point about windmills being commonplace in other parts of the world, here's a photo shot by my friend Russell Johnson who edits the excellent travel site/blog/podcast/radio channel/video site
http://www.ConnectedTraveler.com.
He captions this very nice photo:
"I shot this scene at sunset, flying over Altamont Pass, between Livermore and California's Central Valley. From the ground they seem almost alive, like benign space aliens, murmuring in the wind."
The future look of Lamma's rolling hills?
Maybe we can get an aerial photo of our
Quixotine soon as well.
Soundbydesign, are you reading this??
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