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In article <500d81b5e5see.sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Russell Hafter News <see.sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <500d6f574bdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Indeedy. When the subsidy goes there is no profitability
in putting up a 9,999 windmills...

You are forgetting that consumption of fossil fuels is
becoming ever more unsustainable. Over the long term the
price is only going to increase.

And once people finally get it into their heads that the
atmosphere can no longer be used as a dumping ground, the
economics of fossil fuels will be dead.

While I accept what you are saying about fossil fuel and concur...

Attempting to replace it for power generation with a load of windmills is
a rather Don Quixote enterprise considering just how many of the obscene
things would be required.

It boggles me that renewable fuel lovers will countenance the despoliation
of beautiful countryside with a zillion giant windmills, and yet have
apoplectic fits at the mention of Nuclear power.

And that's aside from the aesthetic catastrophe.

That is a matter of opinion. Some of us like wind
generators. Some of *really* like wind generators.

I like to fart, but I try not to impose myself on others. ;-)

Equally, I suspect that when they were first built, the
windmills now owned by the National Trust in England, and
that are such a tourist attraction in the Netherlands, also
caused all sorts of complaints from some of those who lived
near them.

This is an old saw trotted out by wind power lovers to justify fields full
of crappy drab pillars topped with aeroplane props, when comparing them to
an aesthetically pleasing real single windmill.

Particularly, I suspect, those that were used for water
pumping, to prevent flooding.
:-)

"Plus ça change, plus c'est le même chose."

Not forgetting "The Subways of Tazoo" factor...

Err...?????

A notable SF story by Colin Kapp about a civilisations reliance on wind
power. written some number of years ago.

Dave S

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