If all the crap generated by NIMBY groups was fed into anaerobic digesters it is estimated that the UK could add more than 1 gigawatt onto the National Grid.
Scientists at the University of Reading have been experimenting on a mini digester for the last six months using a trial sample of crap from a group in Arborfield with ‘stunning results’ according to a spokesperson from Defra last week.
As the writer of a “piss poor” blog myself (Stephen Peacock of ‘HARM’) I have donated a week’s piss to the project.
Members of HARM, the group of little islanders living in Julkes Lane, Arborfield opposing the development of wind turbines on the basis that they’d spoil the view from their conservatory windows have resorted to calling anyone that disagrees with them ‘cretins talking nonsense’.
So righteous are they in their belief that their extremely obtuse campaign is valid and not totally flawed (which it is) , they’ve now accused me of making up other pro wind turbine comments on their website (they mean you ‘Waste Accountant’) claiming that they are from my ‘made up friend’.
Clearly, the fact that they are about to lose their silly little battle against the erection of the wind turbines is bothering someone called Peacock who has chosen to shout spite on the massage board of their website – maybe he’s been playing too many computer games and should get out more – I’d do it quickly if I were you Steve before the ground-workers turn up to put the access roads down.
I’m sorry that you (HARM) have chosen to call my blog piss poor, call me a cretin and accuse me of talking nonsense for no other reason than I back wind power – this I feel says more about you than it does about me.
To have a laugh you can always see their shite here. http://www.rushymeadharm.org/
It’s truly heartening to see that the good people in ‘HARM’ are not opposing the erection of wind turbines overlooking the tranquil hamlet of Lower Earley because they’re NIMBYs.
Nor are they simply opposing the planning application because they don’t want their views interrupted and even the idea that the blades might affect their sleep pattern is low on their list of concerns.
The ‘HARM’ possee are simply opposing the wind turbines because they say that the Green Park site is only 17% efficient and that bothers them. What do they expect?
In 1919 a German physicist named Albert Betz figured out that the most you can possibly get out of a wind turbine is around 59% of the power in the wind – in reality it’s around 40%. "Boo hiss" I hear from Lower Earley.
Maybe they’re expecting the mega efficiency of a combined-cycle-gas fired power plant at around 50% or the efficiency of a nuclear power plant at around 35% or even the typical efficiency of a coal or oil fired plant at 33%?
Having read the comments on the anti-environment nimby website ‘HARM’, it would appear that the majority of the people campaigning against the erecting of wind turbines in Rushy Mead live over the other side of the M4 motorway in the Lower Earley ghetto.
Whilst I have sympathy with slum dwellers striving to improve their lot, pretending that the turbines would drown out their preferred fast moving traffic noise is rather strange, but each to his or her own.
Some of the points raised by the vagrants hold some validity though; wind turbines are extremely difficult to incorporate into the National Grid due to the power generated varying so much in tune with the wind and all require back up from other power sources.
One rustic on their site commented that energy storage is an issue which again has some validity however when working to their limit, the largest Vestas turbines can produce enough electricity in three hours to power an average European home for one year.
Another comment on the ‘HARM’ site suggested a brilliant alternative – don’t blight the landscape with turbines, build a nuclear power station instead (hello weggis). Across the world today there are fifty six nuclear power plants under construction and over four hundred plants currently working generating approximately fifteen percent of the world’s electricity requirements.
Rushy Mead is the perfect place for a nuclear power station and it would also appeal to the ghetto people in ‘HARM’ who wouldn’t have to strain to hear the swooshing of wind turbine blades.
With Aldermaston, Burghfield and the M4 Lambourn nuclear warhead arsenal down the motorway, supporting technology and experience is near to hand. So, I thank ‘HARM’ for their support of this alternative idea – nuclear fission has no equal on Earth – vote yes to Rushy Mead nuclear plant.
The University of Reading has teamed up with Partnerships for Renewables in a proposal to erect four wind turbines on essentially uninhabited land to the south of the M4 with a generation capacity of between two and three megawatts (MW) per turbine. A single turbine with this capacity is expected to generate the same amount of electricity as used by 980 average households.
A group of anti environmentalists has set out to stop them? Whether the NIMBYs behind the rather tacky and selfish ‘HARM’ campaign like it or not, the UK has commitments to increase our dependency on renewable energy following signing up to the EU Renewable Energy Directive which places a target of 15% of our energy generated from the sector by 2020.
Whilst the ‘HARM’ guff would have you believe that wind turbines are noisy industrial machines causing sheep to drop foetuses all over the place this is scare mongering crap with current blade technology achieving viable power generation with no interference to nearby homes.
Chris Huhne is actively backing both onshore and offshore wind power however even he admits that there could be as much as a £10 billion funding gap that could prevent the UK achieving our targets.
Add to this the recent successes of the NIMBY elite whose only care for the environment is the view from their bedroom window and it’s no wonder that companies like the Danish Vestas closed their Isle of Wight factory making blades for onshore turbines recently.
The good news for some of the 425 ex workers of Vestas (not that the people living in their rich houses around Rushy Mead give a shit) is the phoenix company ‘Sureblades’ emerging from the ashes only metres from the Vestas plant making 100% recyclable wind turbine blades for the Irish renewable energy company C&F Green Energy.
Reading, Britain and the planet needs wind, solar and wave energy. Rushy Mead is one small part of the bigger picture. Vote YES to the Rushy Mead Wind Turbine facility and be proud – sustainability means leaving the environment in a better state than we inherited it for our children and our children’s children.
A group of anti environment, selfish NIMBYs in Arborfield have set up a campaign against the erection of four wind turbines in an area where no-one actually lives claiming that the turbines would make a noise and drown out the sound of the M4 motorway.
The dumb luddites have called themselves ‘HARM’ (Householders Against Rushy Mead) and claim that the turbines will bring health risks including: having to look at industrial structures, the blades are big, they’re noisy, moles don’t like wind turbines, they’re noisy, mushrooms hate green energy, they’re noisy, turbines are noisier than motorway traffic, they’re noisy at night, they increase abortion rates in sheep (bizarre), did I mention they’re noisy and they scare horses in addition of course to being noisy.
Rushy Mead, the area where the four turbines are planned has approximately eleven people living nearby in mansions worth a million plus, all of whom have nothing better to do than set up some half baked campaign for other selfish shits with nothing better to do to join.
I, Gideon Mack propose that the scheme is increased to include forty turbines in the gardens of the luddites making up ‘HARM’ and the subsequent green energy should then be denied to them for being so fucking stupid, selfish, out dated and thick as shit.
Please click here to go to the dickheads site so you can tell them how stupid they are.
IN MEMORY OF
Paddy Higgins
GID'S NIB
A couple of wrinklies have won £25 Million on the Euro Lottery saying that it's not going to change their lives.
Silly bastards, make them give it back.
2080
Rainy winters snug by the fire, sunny hot summers like Spain growing olives, grapes, lemons and limes; this is climate change - don't listen to them - they're talking bollocks.
HARMAN BACKS BROWN
Harman tells reporters: Like every sturdy knocker, this Country needs a knob and Gordon's the best man for the job.
WELL DONE PIERRE
A big thank you to Pierre, Jean Paul, Luc and Marco, the four Froggie fishermen for starving Britain of goods over the last few days - that's not 'French' at all is it?
HELLO
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