Building 200 wind turbines in 2 years in a single State on land and repair - maintenance is relatively easy with 200’ foot long 18 wheelers & trailers. Couple cops in squads is all it takes. + 100,000 tons of White rock & Millions of acres of non-agricultural land in the USA alone. Turbines need Battery Centers to save and supply the Ai centers. That’s their costs not taxpayers. We pay for the delivery and the Usage, not building the crap. Of course The Donald wants to give his buddies Billions $$$'s
Building on the ocean become $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$'s Cost & navigational nightmare. Think the Donald has stopped that fools crap.
Do you mean not fastened to the sea bed d00d?
Although I think the offshore wind turbines are less intrusive than the land based ones, but they are very expensive to erect, need lots of copper cable to connect them to the grid, and due to the salt deposits don’t last as long as land based units. They also require regular maintenance.
All our present wind turbines that I’ve spotted off the coast at Llandudno and Cromer are fixed to the sea bed. I counted in excess of 100 turbines at Cromer all in rows of ten.
So all this stuff about CO2 causing the ‘greenhouse effect’
We all here because of the ‘Greenhouse effect’
The greenhouse effect protects us from changes in temperature that, like the moon, would alternate between 250º C and minus 250º C
There being more CO2 in the atmosphere now is bogus. There were times in the past when the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere were far greater than they are now…And we weren’t even here then.
Removing trees and covering green spaces with solar panels will do more damage to the climate than all the CO2 man ever produced.
Took Mrs Fox to the doctors with a painful swollen leg (the other one this time) doctor made a phone call to the hospital and said don’t pas go and proceed straight to hospital.
Been here two hours now and just settling in for the long haul.
On the bright side the hot chocolate out of the machine is not too bad…
Took Mrs Fox to hospital this morning for her scan. Fortunately they didn’t discover any blood clots in her leg which is a relief.
While I was sat waiting for her I watched people coming in and out of the x-ray and ultra sound departments. Lots of them were patients at the hospital and were either being pushed around in beds or wheel chairs by old blokes and it dawned on me that they were probably all ex engineers or mechanics looking for something that they could do in later life.
Good on em’ I say.
The NHS is the biggest employer in the UK, but it used to be miners, engineers, mechanics, fishermen, steel makers, car assemblers, clothing manufacturers, electrical engineers building washing machines, fridges and other white goods, farmers, builders, bicycle manufacturers, painters, ship builders…What the hell happened to the UK?
Literary origins: The phrase “the oldest profession” was popularized in the late 19th century, notably appearing in a 1888 short story by author Rudyard Kipling to describe sex work.
The original meaning: Ironically, before the late 1800s, society frequently used the phrase “the oldest profession” to respectfully describe agriculture and gardening, referencing the biblical Garden of Eden.
I think ‘Luddites’ is often wrongly applied.
The masses need to do a job of some kind, bringing machines in to reduce the number of workers doesn’t do society any good. Look what happened round here when they closed the pits. It destroyed communities, encouraged poverty and people living on benefits, and crime went up in the area exponentially. Not just miners and associated pit workers found themselves out of work, but all of the supporting shops and industry also lost their jobs.
It’s one thing to be called a ‘Luddite’ who intentionally destroys machines, but quite another for someone who cares about their community and can see what will happen when most of that community lose their living.
