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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

We are lining everyone elses pockets so we might as well line theirs. Sooner or later we will need other forms of energy because once North Sea oil and gas runs out we would be dependent on others for our supplies with all the pitfalls that comes with that. They may be unsitely not well placed even a slight eco problem but its better than diving back to the stone age. We cant have polluting coal fired power stations nuclear is a contentious issue bio fuel couldnt provide enough for our daily needs. With all the rain and cloud even solar is not viable nor is hydro as that will also spoil large areas of beauty in mountainous areas. All in all windfarms are the lesser evil.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Hydro electric is the only economic way forward. Rain is free and we have an abundance of that. Gravity is also free and never ending.

What would you sooner have? Vast tracts of beautiful mountain countryside and no electricity or a handful of allegedly spoiled countryside sites and electricity in abundance. Even so, lakes man-made or otherwise have their own special beauty and they could spark a water borne leisure industry.

There was a programme on the telly a couple of weeks ago that destroyed the myth of the viability of wind farms. A windmill, during its lifetime, will not produce more energy than it took to build and position it.