Windfarms - not in your back yard

The wonders of renewable energy. Fancy living near a wind farm?

And check out the carbon emissions from this one:

Comments

[CM]

Yeah, terrible. Lucky there have never been accidents involving oil I guess.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/east-timor-massive-oil-sp_n_348272.html

[Thomas Everth]

How about this:

Google: "oil refinery fire" and then select the "images" tab. There are about 181,000 images of horrendous oil disasters.

or Google: "oil tanker sink" and browse over 97,000 images of sinking and polluting oil tankers.

of maybe you'd like to live next to:

Google "coal fire power plant air pollution" images...

[Ian Wishart]

Next time I'm living next to an oil refinery I'll bear it in mind. :)

[CM]

Ah right, a tree falling in the woods only makes a sound if someone hears it.....

[Thomas Everth]

Yea, Epsom is far way from the coalface of civilization. A great spot from which to preach to us on the virtues of remaining as a Carbon burning dependent economy.

... millions now living near Oil refineries or coal fired power plants or breathing in the air pollution that ICE engines produce can't get THAT out of their minds...

[AcidComments]

Not very 'Green'.

Britain cuts down forests to keep ‘green’ power stations burning

Britain is set to plunder the lungs of the world to feed its growing hunger for wood to burn in power stations.

A series of biomass-fired plants are being built in the UK that will trigger a 150 per cent surge in timber imports from 20 million tonnes today to 50 million tonnes by 2015, according to the Forestry Commission.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6918024.ece

[CM]

Nah that's fine. So long as no wind turbines are malfunctioning......

[John Boy]

" Carbon burning dependent economy."

It won't always be that way as survival and practical, not political, demand and supply considerations will dictate we change. That's how its always been and our supposed civilisation nowadays is a thin veneer that will peel off pretty quickly when the going gets tough.

Politicians won't change that because they're generally stupid and greedy.

[Thomas Everth]

"Politicians won't change that because they're generally stupid and greedy. ".. anybody who trumpets these beer hall slogans has probably never had the burden of holding an office or seriously pondered what actually to do about it all if he was in office....!

[AcidComments]

Of interest:

Gone With the Wind: Carbon Millionaires Arrested for Fraud

Italian Wind Fraud Investigation Extends to the Netherlands, UK, Ireland, and Spain. Subsidies Questioned.
For some carbon millionaires, lining their pockets legally through taxpayer subsidies and hand outs is not enough. They choose to cheat even though they’re playing a game that’s already rigged.

FT reports that these saviors of our planet were building wind farms that were “built with public subsidies but had never functioned.”

Vigorito had ties to Brian Caffyn, founder of the controversial “Cape Wind” project planned for Massachusetts’ Nantucket Sound, which has been criticized as a poor investment for taxpayers for the energy it will produce. Vigorito was not an investor in Cape Wind.

http://cfact.eu/2009/11/15/
gone-with-the-wind-arrests-for-massive-fraud-in-italy/

[CM]

What now, bad people exist??!! Hold the front page Ian!