[Leica] Highlands PAW 28

[John McMaster]

Thanks Douglas

john

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Barry
Sent: 21 July 2018 21:43
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Highlands PAW 28

My sympathies on your loss of view and dark skies, John. It's only when 
something is gone that you really miss it.
Douglas


On 21/07/2018 16:44, John McMaster wrote:
> Fine, you live in a city - we live literally on the edge of a cliff with 180 degree sea views, we are in the middle of this farm which now takes up the central 90 degree view.  It is perfect darkness here at night, I expect each of the 86 turbines to have at least two lights (front and rear) each.  There are many inland wind farms and quite a few solar panels around (actually more than there were in the south of France ;-))....
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> John
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>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
> Sent: 21 July 2018 06:34
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Highlands PAW 28
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> I am with Frank all the way. Looking at the first image, I really do not see what the fuss is about. And in NW Europe, with not much sunshine most of the year but lots of wind, this is the obvious solution. Similar discussions take place in Denmark, where a decision has now been made to concentrate on wind farms out in the North Sea because people bitch too much when they are put on land.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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> YNWA
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>> On 16 Jul 2018, at 17:29, FRANK DERNIE via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>     On Monday, 16 July 2018, 11:52, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:
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>> 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.....
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>> http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2018/28
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>> C & C welcome
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>> john
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