Can someone explain to me why the North East between Teesside and Tyneside takes more than it’s fair share of Wind Turbines…they’re always in site as you drive about the area yet travel out of it and they’re thin on the ground .

and why they are not going round 24/7 as we all know though why they are not. how many of these bloody monstrosities are needed to replace the output of one average sized power station over a year whether they go on a turning and a turning or with the movement of an average pools defender.

They are a total waste of time and money without mentioning the bloody mess they look.

Might sound daft to some but I hate them bloody wind turbines for buggering up my view down the coast from the Headland.
I’m expecting Millibean to order us all to have little Wind Turbinettes nailed to our heads and a solar panel on yer back.

Probably the coast where we get the most wind, stopped because the wind is too strong, they would take off in strong winds or maybe overheat and disintegrate I imagine.

I like the sound of that let's keep them turning.

Whatever we think of the look of these turbines is we need energy security. Once the infrastructure is up and running its cheap to generate and by all accounts if the plans are delivered the energy needs of all houses will be deliverable by 2030. Many technical advances are underway to save massive amounts of energy in industry are in the pipelines (so to speak ). One thing that must never happen is that we are in the hands of dictators in the Gulf or Russia etc. IMO we are going in the right direction and if it gets rid of polluting the atmosphere then all the good.

Well Millibean with his plan to block new exploration for oil and gas is doing exactly that…..remember that when your heat pump costing a fortune only supplies you with Luke warm water and energy prices rise…..if this country sank into the sea tomorrow we’d make no difference to anything, it’s the far east, India and South America who’ll be pumping out the pollution in the future and they don’t care because they want their time in the sun and prosperity…..live like a monk with a clear conscience if that turns you on, but it won’t change a thing.
But that doesn’t answer my original question of why our part of the world has the bloody things everywhere and travel outside the area and they’re thin on the ground…. Are our exceedingly dim local politicians easily talked into things….?

Because in the experts heads they think if the U.K. sets an example on green energy the other countries will follow our example.

More like it's an easy excuse to tax and control us. On the positive side they won't be tearing them down to build new houses on the land they're installed on.

with wind farms, new houses, farmland turned into solar panels eventually you,ll need to go to the top of a scottish mountain to see proper greenery. its worse at the coast as it seems impossible to look out to sea anywhere without them blocking a view that youngsters will never see again.

that really sums it up. they still think that the uk is a world leader and as powerfull as it was in 1945.

I agree with you Jamie, they act like it’s Victorian times and the Empire is intact and we as the mother country and should set an example to our underlings who’ll then copy us.
If these clowns want to set an example, set them up on a Scottish island as a sort of miserable, self flagellating theme park and let the rest of us get on with our lives….but the big question is why all governments listen to these swivel eyed loons and ignore the vast majority?

Same in Northumberland - all over the place near Amble, Blyth and Rothbury - mind, they never seem to be working.

Was staying near Rothbury in November when up at Otterburn and you’re right.
There ‘s a mega offshore wind farm when you sail out of Barrow in the Irish Sea if you’re on a course towards the Isle of Man.

they can ignore the vast majority as nearly half do not bother to vote and the ones that do will have there votes split over a number of different parties. one thing there will never be a referendum on this or a general election with one party for the green issues and the other against it. if only there was they,d get a shock greater than brexit ever was.