Gone with the wind: England’s most important coastline

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I lived in Poole for 10 years and it would be terrible if they put up these monstrosities.

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Britain’s most important coastline – the Jurassic world-heritage coast in Dorset – is about to be ruined irretrievably by the Navitus Bay Wind Array, 194 wind turbines almost 600 feet high, covering six square miles, less than 9 miles out to sea. The swept area of each turbine is 200,000 square feet. Yet the mean output of 4000 acres of vast 5 MW wind turbines, even at the absurdly optimistic 35% capacity factor claimed by the developers, will be just 339.5 MW. A single modern 4 GW coal-fired power station produces ten times as much output.


read more: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/...nglands-most-important-coastline/#more-108357
 
Abraxas said:
I lived in Poole for 10 years and it would be terrible if they put up these monstrosities.

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Britain’s most important coastline – the Jurassic world-heritage coast in Dorset – is about to be ruined irretrievably by the Navitus Bay Wind Array, 194 wind turbines almost 600 feet high, covering six square miles, less than 9 miles out to sea. The swept area of each turbine is 200,000 square feet. Yet the mean output of 4000 acres of vast 5 MW wind turbines, even at the absurdly optimistic 35% capacity factor claimed by the developers, will be just 339.5 MW. A single modern 4 GW coal-fired power station produces ten times as much output.


read more: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/...nglands-most-important-coastline/#more-108357
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This is a great example of the backwards thinking of Progressive Liberalism. I predict that in ten or twenty years future Europeans will be dismantling these eyesores and hazards to navigation and wildlife and replacing them with....nuclear generators.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
Danish wind turbines eight miles out to sea......terrible eyesore!.......
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I hope your lawyering skills are better than your reading ones although I would have thought reading was essential. Those turbines off the coast of Southern England are nearly 600 ft high. I doubt those Danish ones are even half as tall!!
 
everyone knows what the cliffs of Dover look like.....but do you know what the ocean looks like from the cliffs of Dover?

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PostmodernProphet said:
dude...these aren't fans.....they capture wind, not create it......
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They don't capture anything other than collecting the occasional unsuspecting bird hacking them to death and now, out in the ocean, posing navigational hazards.

The reality is that the tremendous effort, capital outlay and eyesores these "alternate" energy sources require for the tiny amount of useable electricity produced can only be supported by myopic live in the past fools who like the idea only because it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside that they are helping "mother" earth. Other than that, it is incredibly stupid and foolish.

Like I said, it won't be that long before they start dismantling these testimonies of stupid feel goodism that permeates mostly Liberal thinking and a few quasi conservatives like you.
 
Abraxas said:
I lived in Poole for 10 years and it would be terrible if they put up these monstrosities.

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Britain’s most important coastline – the Jurassic world-heritage coast in Dorset – is about to be ruined irretrievably by the Navitus Bay Wind Array, 194 wind turbines almost 600 feet high, covering six square miles, less than 9 miles out to sea. The swept area of each turbine is 200,000 square feet. Yet the mean output of 4000 acres of vast 5 MW wind turbines, even at the absurdly optimistic 35% capacity factor claimed by the developers, will be just 339.5 MW. A single modern 4 GW coal-fired power station produces ten times as much output.


read more: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/...nglands-most-important-coastline/#more-108357
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Everybody wants ways to produce more and cheaper power, but nobody wants it if it's going to be placed in their backyard.

NIMBY!

You ever taken a look at a 6 story building from 9 miles away?

You are whining about nothing...tiny dots on the horizon MILES out to see.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Everybody wants ways to produce more and cheaper power, but nobody wants it if it's going to be placed in their backyard.

NIMBY!

You ever taken a look at a 6 story building from 9 miles away?

You are whining about nothing...tiny dots on the horizon MILES out to see.
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A six story building is not 600 ft high, more like 60 ft!! Anyway as the article goes to great pains to point out there are not by any means cheap, either to erect or in the pathetic amounts of electricity they produce.

Britain’s most important coastline – the Jurassic world-heritage coast in Dorset – is about to be ruined irretrievably by the Navitus Bay Wind Array, 194 wind turbines almost 600 feet high, covering six square miles, less than 9 miles out to sea.

The swept area of each turbine is 200,000 square feet. Yet the mean output of 4000 acres of vast 5 MW wind turbines, even at the absurdly optimistic 35% capacity factor claimed by the developers, will be just 339.5 MW. A single modern 4 GW coal-fired power station produces ten times as much output.
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ZappasGuitar said:
Everybody wants ways to produce more and cheaper power, but nobody wants it if it's going to be placed in their backyard.

NIMBY!
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It isn't cheaper you ignorant moron.

ZappasGuitar said:
You ever taken a look at a 6 story building from 9 miles away?

You are whining about nothing...tiny dots on the horizon MILES out to see.
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Another clueless dunce too stupid for prime time.

194 wind turbines almost 600 feet high, covering six square miles, less than 9 miles out to sea.

No one should be shocked how a moron like Obama could get elected reading the clueless stupidity that erupts from your keyboard Zappatard; you're the poster child for clueless low information voting dunces who choose politicians too stupid for prime time.
 
Abraxas said:
A six story building is not 600 ft high, more like 60 ft!! Anyway as the article goes to great pains to point out there are not by any means cheap, either to erect or in the pathetic amounts of electricity they produce.
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My apologies for leaving off a zero...you are right.

However, not all of that nearly 600 feet is going to be above water.

Also, as our need for more and more energy grows, we are going to get that energy from oil and natural gas, as well as energy supplied from nuclear power along with wind, geothermal and hydro-electric to meet our needs.

It was over reliance on petroleum that got us where we are today.
 
Truth Detector said:
It isn't cheaper you ignorant moron.

Another clueless dunce too stupid for prime time.
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Yes, it is.

How much oil at $90 a barrel is needed to turn those turbines? how much natural gas?


NONE...


And what do you know,


wind power is...


wait for it...


FREE!!


Last time I checked...FREE was cheaper than whatever they are charging per barrel of oil right now.


Truth Detector said:
194 wind turbines almost 600 feet high, covering six square miles, less than 9 miles out to sea.

No one should be shocked how a moron like Obama could get elected reading the clueless stupidity that erupts from your keyboard Zappatard; you're the poster child for clueless low information voting dunces who choose politicians too stupid for prime time.
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Everyone here understands you spew your venal little attacks because you can't refute the positions taken by those who anger you so.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
My apologies for leaving off a zero...you are right.

However, not all of that nearly 600 feet is going to be above water.

Also, as our need for more and more energy grows, we are going to get that energy from oil and natural gas, as well as energy supplied from nuclear power along with wind, geothermal and hydro-electric to meet our needs.

It was over reliance on petroleum that got us where we are today.
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LMAO

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