If we dont get energy affordably in the future you and I wont even oafford a bike to ride on the trails. Sad but true.
From the hilltop (at 200m) five minutes ride from my house I'll soon be able to see 'environmentally friendly' windfarms on every single piece of high ground surrounding this city.
And a couple of decades ago you would have seen slag heaps, tramways and pitheads.
I'd still go to Brechfa to ride the black and the blue trails, especially with Cwm Rhaeader and some great natural riding so near.
I know what I'd prefer.a) 1.2km of trail for grown ups to play at bicycles on.
or
b) a source of power that is environmentally friendly, reduces our dependence on fossil fuels and will go some way toward cleaning up the mess that the baby boomer generation has made for my generation to live in.
Yes, it would definitely be 1.2km of trail
What, as opposed to a nice green nuclear plant - which can power hundreds of times the area at a hundreds of times smaller physical footprint? Instead of something idiot hippies thought up?
10 quid partly cynical partly humorous bet says that Wind farms will end up contributing to global warming fairly significantly and If you don't get why look up the theory.
A lot of you are basing your assumptions on wind turbine technology from a decade ago. They are much, much more powerful now and the old "they take more power to make than they will ever produce" argument is now nonsense.
Yes, nuclear is the real answer, but the general public is too thick to realise that and so wind power is filling some very small holes.
Yes, nuclear is the real answer
My only concern with Nuclear...
Is what do we do with the waste??
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