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moss wrote:
Evergreen Dazed wrote:
You could grow to love them I reckon! :)
Yes I like them as well, more news from ITV on the subject, it really doesn't look too bad where the farmer wants to put it but there again is it necessary? Note Australian visitor comment, 'it will spoil the view'.

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2012-08-09/wind-turbine-row/

I think the farmer has it just about right in that report.
It makes me wonder if people objected to having a 12ft stone erected way back when. 'Spoiling the view'.
There is no point in studying the past if we are afraid to go forward.
I don't know whether the turbine is absolutely necessary, or the finer detail of the proposal, so there may well be a case against it for other reasons but based upon what I have seen here it seems to me a fuss about very little.
If it was genuinely detrimental to the landscape it would be glaringly obvious to all. It just doesnt bother me in the slightest but I would like to hear others views.

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
moss wrote:
Evergreen Dazed wrote:
You could grow to love them I reckon! :)
Yes I like them as well, more news from ITV on the subject, it really doesn't look too bad where the farmer wants to put it but there again is it necessary? Note Australian visitor comment, 'it will spoil the view'.

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2012-08-09/wind-turbine-row/

I think the farmer has it just about right in that report.
It makes me wonder if people objected to having a 12ft stone erected way back when. 'Spoiling the view'.
There is no point in studying the past if we are afraid to go forward.
I don't know whether the turbine is absolutely necessary, or the finer detail of the proposal, so there may well be a case against it for other reasons but based upon what I have seen here it seems to me a fuss about very little.
If it was genuinely detrimental to the landscape it would be glaringly obvious to all. It just doesnt bother me in the slightest but I would like to hear others views.
I see them as a necessary evil if you will.
Dunno your age (i'm early 40's) but i guess there comes a point when you sorta oppose any radical change (which i do see these monstrosities as) but they are the way forwards i guess, And much better than having yet another power station thrown up somewhere.
Going on the video Moss posted it doesn't seem to have too much of an impact, Much better than the photoshopped pic i posted anyway.

Generally speaking I'm with you on this. There are some places where they enhance even (mostly out to sea off places like Rhyl, it must be said).

I said a year or so ago in another thread that it's often about context though. Years ago when I was a kid, I used to go to Nottingham with my Dad on the motorway from Birmingham and I used to be fascinated by the lines of pylons marching across an otherwise flat landscape. I still think they have a certain grandeur now, which probably stems from those "roadtrips". But put them next to Tinkinswood, or the lovely pair of stones at Bwlch y Ddeufaen and they're enormously intrusive. I know comparing pylons with wind turbines isn't strictly "like for like", but I do think that a wind turbine that might blend into the landscape in one place isn't necessarily going to blend in everywhere. This probably means that you therefore have to consider them on a case-by-case basis, which is difficult without local knowledge. I personally wouldn't welcome them in the wide-open spaces of Dartmoor, say - imagine one next to White Moor and I don't see that as being a good move. But in lots of less open countryside they wouldn't offend me in the slightest.

I also think it's right to acknowledge that they represent an attempt to move us forward. None of us would want to do without electricity, so some compromises are going to be needed anyway.