Matt Baker – Turbines biggest threat to countryside

“EACH UK HOUSEHOLD PAYS £266 FOR NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING EVERY YEAR.
Posted in News, Market by Peter Bennett Published on 06 December 2011

A recent study commissioned by Engensa has announced the results from a survey conducted by TNS that examines UK consumers' knowledge and understanding of their energy bills.
The survey indicates a distinct lack of awareness of the true cost of energy subsidies to the UK consumer. 60 percent of respondents are unsure how much UK households pay for solar energy subsidies, with only 6 percent of those surveyed correctly answering "less than £2 per year". Over 60 percent of those surveyed admitted that they did not know to what extent a household personally subsidises solar, with 6 percent believing that it costs "more than £100 per year" to subsidise solar technology.
To further compound the confusion over the cost of energy subsidies, 65 percent of respondents did not know the average contribution to the nuclear industry; only 4 percent correctly answered that the cost of nuclear decommissioning is "more than £250 per year." The actual cost each UK household pays for nuclear decommissioning is £266.
Is not this chain around our children's neck shameful and immoral ?
People complain about Turbines please,please,wake up.”

“The countryside being empty may have more to do with those property programmes where people are looking at 4-5 bed cottages and grumbling at 40 foot kitchens whilst hoping to move from pseudo-Tudor monstrosities in the home counties that are now worth zillions. One would have thought that if they're being viewed by the numbers of unemployed wondering what to cook in their 6 foot kitchens they'll start the revolution sure as Marie Antoinette and her cake suggestion did. The people on those programmes want acres of land, no roads and definitely no turbines in the back garden. The Journal recently had an article on one incomer who lamented the fact that she had to have tractors passing her door. Anyone on a normal wage has been priced well out of the 'countryside'. Turbines are the least of their problems. (And lots of us 'already heres' think they look just fine ).”

“In the last 24 hours we have had Chris Evans backing the government on proposals to stop parents taking their children out of school for holidays; Jeremy Clarkson being suppported by the BBC over his disgraceful comments about public sector workers and Matt Baker having a dig at wind turbines.

And some think that the state broadcasting corporation is full of lefties! They need to keep their mouths shut and get on with the job that they are employed to do.”

“Are you disillusioned by rising electricity prices, over dependence on the "green" dream [especially uneconomical and inefficient wind farms] and the destruction of our countryside then please register your objection to the Government on

http://tinyurl.com/cajsyrf

or by GOOGLING "E-PETITION 22958" and following the link.”

“Problem with wind farms is that they allow politicians to look as though they're doing something and draw attention away from the generally dreadful state they have managed [if that's the right word] to get the Country into. "Hey look at me being socially responsible". Its what happens when most of them are either lawyers, political "science" graduates, research assistants or failed social workers, who haven't got a practical or engineering brain cell between them.

No one has ever been able to explain to me the logic of a power generation system that is depandent on a resource [wind] that isn't there for a third of their operating time, with the result that for every 2kw they generate there has to be another 1kw of conventional power generation available to back them up. And as far as being carbon friendly is concerned, with their relatively short operating life I'm told they never actually recover the carbon generated during their own manufacture. Rather like electric cars except the cars are even worse with huge environmental clear up costs when the batteries have to be replaced and disposed of after six or seven years. Oh, and at a replacement cost that is so high they will probably cause an otherwise perfectly useable vehicle to be scrapped well before its production carbon generation has been recovered

Tidal power does at least have the benefit of being predictable, doesn't look as star wars ugly and allows the countryside to sound of birdsong instead of demented helicopters.”

“More of a dumbed down article then.

By its very nature, sustainability is the modern day answer to living in the beginnings of a modern day form of feudalism. Nuclear has been given a rather dirty name over the last couple of decades. The powers that be already like to dictate to us peasents on the land that we must conserve energy and water. We have private firms running the utilities to make vast financial profits out of essential life giving power and water. Electricity is cheap and easy to produce via nuclear. Without a decent form of electricity being delivered to our homes we would be living in a Third World state. Wind power is just never going to make the cut as a way of generating enough electricity to the masses. Under the UN's Agenda 21 programme which states that we as a global population are too many, and that the demand on the resources of the world is far too great. This means that a form of medieval feudalism should be applied for the greater good of all humanity under the guise of sustainability. I would imagine that wind farms give the idea of a greener, more enviromentaly friendly image to the greater cause of gradually lowering general living standards of all western societies. We're stepping into a new dark age where human beings will be living like peasents in the future.”

“Good God we have stupid TV interviewers telling us what we should or should not have now. Lets just build a few more Nuclear Power Station and be done with all this argument.”

“@HannahJones

Yes you are right there. This report doesn't seem to contain much content of any value. Babies, Strictly Come Dancing, very little about wind turbines.”

“Is this article about wind turbines or Julia Bradbury's uterus?”

“Well never mind sandman18 if the wind turbine/green agenda mob get their way , we in the countryside, will no longer be living in countryside as such, but in turbine forests and solar panel fields.

I wonder if somebody will be able to come up with a love song incorporating couples canoodling in these forests and fields? :-{{{{”