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Date Posted: 12:24:33 07/24/11 Sun
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: The Steam Age
In reply to: Gilly 's message, "Re: The Steam Age" on 11:31:21 07/24/11 Sun

Hurray,it worked! We have dozens of those horrid wind turbines around this area, Swaffham, which is a smallish market town in mid Norfolk, has two absolutely huge ones that you can see as you go into the town from the south although they are both on the north side of town , and then a further 7 over to the east of it. The cost of installing them is enormous, they are noisy and it takes all 9 of them to provide enough energy for the town. Sizewell B, which is dow on the Suffolk coast, takes up about the same amount of land as those 9 wind turbines and supplies one fifth or thereabouts of the electricity needs for England, is silent and employs quite a number of people, pound for pound, nuclear is much cheaper and not dependent on the vagaries of the British weather. As you might have realised, I'm biased in favour of nuclear, although I wasn't when I was young, but nuclear power was young as well then, and it has changed so much over the years and improved so much safety wise. We often go down to Sizewell with the dog as there is some very pleasant walking down there, and it's actually right next door to the RSPB Minsmere site, we usually walk down as far as the tank traps, sit for a while on the huge blocks of concrete and then walk back and have a picnic, it's about a 4 mile rund walk. There are wind turbines on top of the hills near Aberystwith, with a couple right opposite the entrance to a park where they have a huge red kite feeding station, and the people who work there go ballistic about the turbines. Every dead red kite has to be examined by a vet as they are a protected species, as are buzzards, of which there is a proliferation in that part of Wales, and they said that they are finding so may of these big birds of prey with their wings ripped off lying on the ground very near the turbines. There are some wind farm in the North Sea as well (which you can see from some of the places we go to, and the sails just aren't moving), and the positioning of one farm had to be moved as it was right in the flight path of winter migrating birds and the RSPB kicked up a storm as the birds would have been decimated, but they haven't kicked up any sort of storm about a new nuclear power building being built at Sizewell, which is right next to them. I rest my case.

Gilly

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