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PROPOSED WIND FARMS

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  • #102
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    Eiriu wrote: »
    I have a problem with windfarms being built in Westmeath to provide power for Britain. When Britain will not allow them be built in Britain.

    This is my main problem. Is there something unnatural about my argument?

    My argument has probably confused you. That is not my fault. But things are not always either black or white. The beauty is in the paradoxes.

    I'm not trying to wind anyone up. I feel very strongly about this. You just can't beat my argument so you resort to calling me names or a wind up merchant. I haven't made any personal attacks.

    How do you honestly think the world will generate power in 200 years time? Its little over one hundred years since the car was invented.
    The answer is Nuclear Power. Think about it.
    I was confused because you were hiding the true reason for your opposition behind feigned concern for the enviorable impact of these windfarms.
    Now I know the truth, I'm outta here. Good luck. Educate youself a bit about both the buying and selling of electricity between Ireland and Britain.
    Regarding nuclear power, I thought about it over 30 years ago. I haven't changed my mind and you won't do it for me.

    To those who have a genuine concern about the impact of these farms, I may possibly support them, but that would very much depend on the facts presented and not hysteria about selling power to the British.
    Bye, bye.


  • #103
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Ok there's a crowd hopeing to put literaly thousands of turbines up in the midlands , they reckon over 650 farmers will have turbines on their land (and payments) . It was being talked about on mon crief this afternoon.... Now that 'll be impressive... Possibly intrusive, cos it's so flat... Still think it's a good thing though..
    I think they were saying two years of studies, ( windspeeds, environmental impact, bird life) then planning and be building ( abd exporting) by 2018...think big ...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #104
    Eiriu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Eiriu


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    I was confused because you were hiding the true reason for your opposition behind feigned concern for the enviorable impact of these windfarms.
    Now I know the truth, I'm outta here. Good luck. Educate youself a bit about both the buying and selling of electricity between Ireland and Britain.
    Regarding nuclear power, I thought about it over 30 years ago. I haven't changed my mind and you won't do it for me.

    To those who have a genuine concern about the impact of these farms, I may possibly support them, but that would very much depend on the facts presented and not hysteria about selling power to the British.
    Bye, bye.

    You thought about it thirty years ago. Thirty years has passed. Yet you will cling to something which you decided then. Are you aware that change is the only constant?

    I'm not a supporter of nuclear power. It is inevitable though.

    Buying and selling electricity has nothing to do with me. Why would I educate myself about that?


    You claim yet again to know why I am complaining against windfarms and say that you won't continue the argument because of that.

    You simply cannot think of anything to say. So you claim you know something. But you are misguided in this.

    I am against these monstrosities being built in the county. Will they have lights on top of them? If that is the case we will be reminded of them both at night and during the day.

    I would advise against trying to construct these wind-farms in Westmeath. If you want to make money, invest in Uranium.


  • #105
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    Eiriu wrote: »
    See we are very different; I myself love an unspoiled view, free from anything man-made.


    No-one is suggesting that we build peat burning stations to service England.

    Nuclear power is the real answer to our energy problems, when we are mature enough as a society to use it. It is inevitable.

    Do you really see society's energy needs being serviced by windfarms when oil becomes uneconomical.

    eh, no

    I would suggest having a read about fukoshima, chernobyl and three mile island if you want to get more information on why Nuclear power as it exists today is not the answer to the energy crisis.
    Add to that the fact that it takes more energy to extract & purify Uranium than it actually provides between Fuel rod and toxic waste states....

    The answer to our energy needs will have to be a combination of all of the renewable sources we have at our disposal, and possibly some as yet uninvented technology (possibly algae based)

    Fact of the matter is, renewables make sense, as they are....renewable. All other sources are finite, and as such will run out, with prices increasing as the supply diminishes. We are seeing that happen with Oil at the moment, its slowly but surely climbing, year on year, all the while filling the atmosphere with CO2. Is your answer really to build a load of Nuclear Power plants and leave a legacy of toxic waste for the next generation to deal with ?


  • #106
    Eiriu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Eiriu


    AngryHippie wrote: »
    eh, no

    I would suggest having a read about fukoshima, chernobyl and three mile island if you want to get more information on why Nuclear power as it exists today is not the answer to the energy crisis.
    Add to that the fact that it takes more energy to extract & purify Uranium than it actually provides between Fuel rod and toxic waste states....

    The answer to our energy needs will have to be a combination of all of the renewable sources we have at our disposal, and possibly some as yet uninvented technology (possibly algae based)

    Fact of the matter is, renewables make sense, as they are....renewable. All other sources are finite, and as such will run out, with prices increasing as the supply diminishes. We are seeing that happen with Oil at the moment, its slowly but surely climbing, year on year, all the while filling the atmosphere with CO2. Is your answer really to build a load of Nuclear Power plants and leave a legacy of toxic waste for the next generation to deal with ?

    I don't have an answer. It has yet to happen.

    Your talking about energy sources that have yet to be invented.
    We already rely on nuclear energy- the Sun.

    As a great prophet once said - don' be afraid of atomic energy.

    However, I don't know if the answer will be atomic energy and neither do you.

    However this is a bit off topic. I'd prefer to discuss the windfarms. They are the present discussion.


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