Windmills

WillowTheWhisp · 11-09-2005, 08:54

HRH Prince Charles doesn't fancy the idea of a windfarm in the vicinity of the Castle of Mey, the childhood home of the Queen Mother. It's up in the highlands and hardly likely to bother many people and from where the Queen Mum is right now I can't see her having much of an objection either.

Aren't they supposed to be environmentally friendly? Aren't they a renewable source of energy in this age of diminishing resources?

This prompted me to wonder how other people feel about them.

Personally although I wouldn't want one right outside my backdoor as it would probably be quite noisy I do actually find them quite a pleasant sight up on a hillside. A darned site more attractive than a nuclear power station anyway.

Busman says that's probably because we've got a baby one of our own up at the caravan.

Acrylic-bob · 11-09-2005, 09:01

Considering that they are only about 20% efficient at converting available wind energy into electricity I have to say they are a pretty bad idea and a bit of an eyesore to boot. And perhaps this is why the Queen, noted for her fiscal prudence, has chosen to spend millions on providing Windsor Castle with a hydro-electrical system powered by Old Father Thames.

WillowTheWhisp · 11-09-2005, 09:05

Oh I think our baby one is quite pretty. At least we get 20% of the wind which we wouldn't otherwise get and it powers our lights and TV.

There's a guy down Peterborough way has a mushroom farm/factory which is powered by one. Saves on his electricity bill.

janet · 11-09-2005, 10:48

I think they are a good idea if they help to save money.I could do with one in my back garden.

garinda · 11-09-2005, 12:45

I wasn't allowed to have a bike when I was a child, as it was considered too dangerous where we lived then on Stanhill Lane. I manged to find a bike substitute on the tip, which was a wheel chair, and used to get my friend Shirley to push me up and down the lane, only after doing a Rindy make over and painting it beige with black spots.

My much loved form of transport was cruelly taken from me though, in the power cuts of the early seventies. My Dad took the wheels off, and along with a church pew, and some lengths of drainpipe, boilt a windmill on top of the garage.

It measured over twenty feet tall and Mum, and some of our neighbours were mortified. Traffic used to stop, and people used to stand across from the house to gawp.

It didn't generate enough energy to power the television, but we were the only house in Ossy with lights on downstairs.

cashman · 11-09-2005, 13:44

probably prince charles objects because the trees will not be able to hear him talking to them if theres a windfarm in the vicinity.lol don,t think they look too bad personally.

chav1 · 11-09-2005, 13:49

with those ears it dosnt matter where they put the windmills charlie will always be able to hear them

SPUGGIE J · 11-09-2005, 15:32

I agree with chave with them ears he should hear anything. Mind you in a strong wind does he spin as well? Besides if Joe Public and Fred the Farmer have to put up with them why should be different? He spouts of enough about renewable energy so he can lump it he cannot have it both ways.

chav1 · 11-09-2005, 15:53

i am chav and i havnt been on or inside a windmill in holland but it only took me one post to tell you all that

shiny gem · 11-09-2005, 16:03

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Originally Posted by chav1

i am chav and i havnt been on or inside a windmill in holland but it only took me one post to tell you all that

lmao!!! well your obviously not trying hard enough to increase your posts total are you!!!

chav1 · 11-09-2005, 16:04

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Originally Posted by shiny gem

lmao!!! well your obviously not trying hard enough to increase your posts total are you!!!

well ime a great believer that if you must talk crap at least have the decency to compress it into as few posts as possible lol

shiny gem · 11-09-2005, 16:06

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Originally Posted by chav1

well ime a great believer that if you must talk crap at least have the decency to compress it into as few posts as possible lol

lol...well all i have to say is... "job well done!!"

garinda · 11-09-2005, 16:09

I am Garinda. I was winded by a miller. What am I on about? What's a windmill? Help me.

staggeringman · 11-09-2005, 16:12

you sit on it and spin round!!

SPUGGIE J · 11-09-2005, 16:16

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Originally Posted by garinda

I am Garinda. I was winded by a miller. What am I on about? What's a windmill? Help me.

A guy with a gas problem in the rear.