Donald Trump lambasts Scottish offshore wind plans
He's only worried what the turbines will do to his beautiful tonsure. But seriously, Donnie lad, if the prospect of an innovative, sustainable future for Scotland seriously offends you, you can always just rip up your ridiculous Golf Yankee Hotel plans and Foxtrot off back to Noo Yoik. You will not be missed.
He's only worried what the turbines will do to his beautiful tonsure. But seriously, Donnie lad, if the prospect of an innovative, sustainable future for Scotland seriously offends you, you can always just rip up your ridiculous Golf Yankee Hotel plans and Foxtrot off back to Noo Yoik. You will not be missed.
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Golf is dull, tedious and pointless. Played by middle aged men who arn't energetic enough to do a proper sport
Trump's disneyfication of a pristine piece of coast is pretty outrageous, especially in the way that he has bought the council and the Scottish Parliament
However - wind farms (offshore or onshore) are very ugly and also not very effective ways of generating electricity. There is a huge one off the coast of north wales which has destroyed the views (its an industrial installation) and should never have been built. I tend to feel the same way about the plans for offshore Aberdeen.
You would never get planning permission to put a factory on top of a mountain or just off shore of a pristine piece of coast so why the hell should you be allowed to build huge ugly turbines.
There are better ways to produce electricity, its just their advocates don't have such effective lobbyists in Westminster.
:-)
As for wind power, I agree that it is not especially efficient on a large scale (and not necessarily that green, either - http://theindependent.ca/2011/04/19/rare-earths-and-renewables/ - but I don't find the turbines ugly.
Much like the cooling towers of the Vale of York (http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamherringshaw/6628580631/in/photostream/lightbox/), I think they often add some grandeur to boring landscapes. Industrial scale installations in national parks are undoubtedly wrong, but I've seen quite a few places where I liked their presence.
The bigger issue (and one that lots of complainants seem reluctant to address) is: if oil rigs, power stations and wind turbines are a no-go, how do we feed our energy-hungry lifestyles? I'm interested to know what Trump's "other forms of energy" are, for example.