Alex 'Butcher' Salmond has destroyed Scotland [windfarms]

Telegraph - UK ^ | October 20, 2012 | James Delingpole

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Today is the Scottish National Party conference in Perth. At some stage, SNP leader Alex Salmond will no doubt be crowing, as he is wont to do, about his success in transforming Scotland into the "Saudi Arabia of renewables". This is inaccurate. What he has actually done is transform Scotland into the Saudi Arabia of tourism, which is to say he has turned a once-beautiful country into a vast, inhospitable desert which no one in their right mind would want to visit.

Scotland's landscape was, until recently, one of the great glories of our national heritage. What made it so special was its vastness, its remoteness, its stark, unspoilt magnificence. Though, of course, man has played his part in shaping it – the stone walls and bothies built by crofters, the patchwork colours on the hillside caused by burning sections of heather on the moor in order to provide new shoots for the grouse – but till now his presence has been discreet and has enhanced the country's beauty rather than detracting from it. No more, however. Wind farms have ruined everything.

This must-read article about the devastation wrought on just one part of Scotland – remote and rugged Caithness – says it all. It was written by a man who genuinely loves and appreciates nature – as opposed to all those misanthropic environmental zealots who are destroying the planet while pretending to save it with "renewable energy". Here's a sample:....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Scotland's wind farm footprint:

"The August 2012 version of the map is available below. We have changed the format of the map this year as the labelling was getting too difficult on a single page. The new format splits Scotland in to 4 sections and provides a more detail map for each, with a numbered key for the wind farms. The first page still provides the national overview, minus the names of the wind farms......" Source

[cripplecreek]

Monuments to pure stupidity. Windmills would devastate our tourism industry in Michigan.

Proposal 3 would require that the state add as many as 13 times more wind turbines in Michigan than currently operate. Proposal 3 would mandate that 25 percent of Michigan’s energy come from renewable sources. Wind is expected to be the primary supplier of renewable energy if the proposal passes.

Advocates and experts predict 2,300 to 3,790 nearly 500-feet high wind turbines would have to be added to meet the 25-percent mandate. Michigan currently has 292 wind turbines in operation.



Most of Michigan is 'Poor' or 'Marginal' For Wing Energy

[Happy Rain]

Why would the Scots be interested in wind energy anyway? There is no profit and the gusts blow their kilts up to expose their hairy naked bums adding, if nothing else, to the national nausea..

[3catsanadog]

The environmentalists don’t see what eyesores these giant windmills are, covering acres and acres of once beautiful land, yet can’t see the hypocritical stance they take to prevent a few oil rigs in ANWR because they claim it will destroy the pristine environment. A place thousands of miles from where 99% of the human population will never be able to get to.

[cripplecreek]

The environmentalists don’t see what eyesores these giant windmills are, covering acres and acres of once beautiful land, yet can’t see the hypocritical stance they take to prevent a few oil rigs in ANWR because they claim it will destroy the pristine environment.

An oil rig stands for a few months, windmills are forever.

[Vinnie]

And I bitched about cell towers.

[bigtoona]

The dirty secret is that you can build 10,000 windmills next to a large city and you cannot shut down a single power plant! The plants must all remain running for when there are lulls in the wind.

[The Great RJ]

Windmills are not only next to useless in reliably generating electricity, they are a blight on any landscape. I have seen in southwestern Minnesota virtual forests of these 300 foot monstrosities that extend literally from horizon to horizon. Often as not you drive by and see only a few if any turning in the wind... billions of dollars invested in electric power generation that depends on fickle winds is pure folly.

[Carriage Hill]

Not always:

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.

Scottish National Party... leader Alex Salmond will no doubt be crowing... about his success in transforming Scotland into the "Saudi Arabia of renewables"... What he has actually done is transform Scotland into the Saudi Arabia of tourism, which is to say he has turned a once-beautiful country into a vast, inhospitable desert which no one in their right mind would want to visit.

[Oztrich Boy]

The first image for: Scotland wind farms

[longtermmemmory]

Greece has windfarms in south Greece which all sit iddle and useless.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[1_Rain_Drop]

That looks photoshopped.
So unnatural. Scary.

[Ditter]

I have been to this part of Scotland many years ago. It is truly magnificent, or was anyway.

[hinckley buzzard]

There is already an entire windfarm in Hawaii which has simply been abandoned.

[longtermmemmory]

perhaps we should start a thread montage of abandoned windfarms.

[silverleaf]

who wouldn’t want to vacation there?

(sarc)

seriously, northern Germany looked like this a decade ago, can only imagine how it looks now

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The environmentalists don’t see what eyesores these giant windmills are,****

Forty five years ago enviros were crying that power poles were ruining the view of many places. Now they demand windmills.

Can’t please them.