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Originally Posted by Phil Blinkhorn
I'm very much in favour of them both as providers of renewable energy which should, in the long term, be cheap power and as potential icons of a period that is likely to change the world as much as the industrial revolution did.
Here in Kerry there are a number of wind farms. Two, on the Stacks Mountains, are visible from my home and I've seen them in Europe and the US - the Tehachapi Wind Farm on the edge of the desert near Mojave provides a particularly stunning vista.
Each unit is a masterpiece of simple but stunning form and, either taken individually or en masse, are unmissable.
There are those who say they deface the countryside or seascape - if they do, they do it in a way any other structure from the Eiffel Tower to Stonehenge defaces the landscape by simply being placed there by man instead of nature.
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Tehachapi Wind farm is my local wind farm but a favourite of mine is Coal Clough wind farm in Cliviger
I always felt that Coal Clough wind farm added something to the overall Cliviger vista from the Bacup Rd. Scout moor seems not to generate that feeling. So for me, some look great and others not so good. Returning from Dublin on the ferry the ones in the Mersey estuary seemed ok!
Still, alternative energy sources are a necessity now that oil production has peaked and insatiable demand from China and India now competes for those limited fuels.