Mad Dictators

[Tosh]

On 12/07/2026 at 14:32, ProDave said:

and by the way on shore wind farms in England and Wales are banned

that ban was lifted some time ago, in our county Bute energy are currently going through planning for 3 wind farms in mid Powys consisting 65 windmills up to 220m high.

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, Spinny said:

Heil Fuhrer Nick !

Lol. On site is the only place I command . Has a certain ring to it though 

 

1 hour ago, Spinny said:

If it is a good idea people will want it. If people want it, the market will build it. End of.

Even Nick doesn't know what is 'the greater good' for everything.

There are a significant few who are too dense or preoccupied to GAF here, surviving day to day on a diet of short-sightedness, ignorance, and selfishness.

 

If the nations children were given a choice on a Monday, go to school to get an education to bolster the next 50-60 years of your working life, or stay home an stare at fecking TicTok all day.............we'd be fecked, and schools would be 20% full at best.

 

Dehydrated horses clinging to life sometimes need to be carried to water, and even if they can't swim, need be be tossed in the deep end and given no choice. You can't educate pork.

[ProDave]

49 minutes ago, Tosh said:

that ban was lifted some time ago, in our county Bute energy are currently going through planning for 3 wind farms in mid Powys consisting 65 windmills up to 220m high.

Good.  When the Welsh and English see these springing up everywhere like we have, policy just may change.

[Nickfromwales]

2 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Good.  When the Welsh and English see these springing up everywhere like we have, policy just may change.

@Roger440 may already be suffering from this type of expansion, as he moved to deepest, darkest, but still picturesque Wales, and then the pylons started dropping.......

[Tosh]

4 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Good.  When the Welsh and English see these springing up everywhere like we have, policy just may change.

you obviously haven't seen how many we have in the welsh hills so I certainly wouldn't be wishing it on anybody. Like many aspects of government the line of corroboration with large companies is suspicious.

[Nickfromwales]

2 minutes ago, Tosh said:

Like many aspects of government the line of corroboration with large companies is suspicious.

I believe the saying is "as bent as a £9 note".

[ProDave]

1 minute ago, Tosh said:

you obviously haven't seen how many we have in the welsh hills so I certainly wouldn't be wishing it on anybody. Like many aspects of government the line of corroboration with large companies is suspicious.

Sorry I don't mean I am personally hoping the English and Welsh get these wind farms and pylons in the numbers we have been "given" in Scotland.

 

What I am saying is while for so long England in particular has banned them, they have instead been built up here so the good folk of England who largely make the rules, have not seen the blot on the landscape that they are, and if the good folk of England don't see them, they obviously think they are good.

[SteamyTea]

I drove from St Agnes to Penzance the other day.

Think there are 12 small turbines scattered about, plus 1 wind farm.

Hardly noticed them. The one in PZ is minus it's blades at the moment.

All those turbines could be replaced with just 1 large turbine now.

But that is not going to happen as the twats down here don't know the theory behind them and assume 1 large one is the same as a small one.

Edited 16 hours ago by SteamyTea

[JohnMo]

7 hours ago, ProDave said:

they have instead been built up here so the good folk of England

But up here is nearly the best wind conditions on the planet, so does make sense. I have no issues with them quite like seeing the blades moving, especially large turbines, small one spin to fast not quite the same 

[Gone West]

9 hours ago, ProDave said:

What I am saying is while for so long England in particular has banned them, they have instead been built up here so the good folk of England who largely make the rules, have not seen the blot on the landscape that they are

Couldn't the Scottish government have banned them, in the same way as the English government did?

[JohnMo]

41 minutes ago, Gone West said:

Couldn't the Scottish government have banned them, in the same way as the English government did?

Could have, but maybe they are sensible. That's why we have wind providing most of our electricity nearly all the time. Plus we can export energy. Think bigger picture is hydrogen generation instead of curtailment and that becomes another export product.

[SteamyTea]

51 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

Think bigger picture is hydrogen generation instead of curtailment and that becomes another export product.

Better off making ammonia and combining it with nitrogen.

Easier storage, better return and more useful.

We have the technologies to do this already and there is currently a world shortage as the ships full of it are in the Muddle East.

[saveasteading]

49 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

another export product.

Thd anomaly is that a stage is reached where it does not "benefit the local community".

Planners work yo a tick- box system and cannot include approved but unbuilt projects, so more get approval 

 

Then the national grid takes it away. 

It would be a simple solution to levy £/MW and pay it into the community in perpetuity. Perhaps in real time.

But that would be a UK government thing.

 

or? Could it be levied as it is exported to the grid? That could be a planning condition.

How big would the meters be?

[SteamyTea]

4 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

benefit the local community

My parents lived next door to a school once.

That was no benefit to them, too many noisy kids, and cars everywhere twice a day.

But society benefitted, some of those kids went on to work, others had kids, that are going to pay to keep me housed, healthy and fed.

 

As sooner as I hear about 'the local community' I think small town, selfish mentality.

 

[Ed_]

4 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

That was no benefit to them

Presumably their house was cheaper on account of the proximity to noisy kids?

[jack]

1 minute ago, Ed_ said:

Presumably their house was cheaper on account of the proximity to noisy kids?

 

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[saveasteading]

5 hours ago, JohnMo said:

hydrogen generation instead of curtailment

Currently proposed near Inverness. Makes sense as a use for spare wind power. Like pump storage reservoirs it could be utilised only when there is spare power. But more likely a justification for more turbines

 

With Loch Ness proposals for another 2 dams,  it would make Inverness a major power centre. The downside being the huge local effect but not a lot of jobs.