[Leica] Highlands PAW 28

[John McMaster]

Thanks, I know but it is also some cost saving on their part as it is quite flat around here but the land owners are paid quite a lot....  There are quite a few wind farms inland, maybe not quite so large but bigger than I saw in Aude, and not a house in sight.

john

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of FRANK DERNIE via LUG
Sent: 16 July 2018 16:30
To: Leica Users Group
Cc: FRANK DERNIE
Subject: Re: [Leica] Highlands PAW 28

I appreciate you not liking them, I am not keen myself, but there are 2 overriding reasons to site wind farms off shore, wind consistency and the ability to deploy machines which are much larger than could be moved into place on land.In parts of the Pyrenees there are small wind turbines on every ridge as far as the eye can see but they are the biggest they can get in place. It is hideous and IMO much worse than I am seeing in your pictures.Seems a shame to mar the beautiful Scottish coastline a bit but people demand more and more energy. There are not only more of us people but the energy use per person in modern life must be many times what it was 60 years ago.When I was a kid it was one bath a week, now it is 2 per day in some households. Air conditioning didn't exist anywhere in the UK, central heating was rare etc., etc.cheers,Frank D. 

    On Monday, 16 July 2018, 11:52, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:
 

 I am enjoying my view while I can....  In the first shot you can see the bases for wind turbines on the horizon to the left, the second shot (nearly a 1:1 crop) show the first tower and turbines fitted.  In a year or so there will be nearly 90 of them (+160m tall) straight out in front of our house :(  Yes this is NIMBYism, but there are vast tracts of suitable land inland here where people do not go or see them.....

http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2018/28

C & C welcome

john