Mother Nature Fights Back.

[Raven]

Despite the warnings by locals the Wind Farm went ahead, now they have disturbed the ground so much it's caused a big landslide.
Thankfully nobody was hurt......THIS TIME.
Video in link.

https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/shetland-peatslide

[JBR]

Despite the warnings by locals the Wind Farm went ahead, now they have disturbed the ground so much it's caused a big landslide.
Thankfully nobody was hurt......THIS TIME.
Video in link.

https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/shetland-peatslide

Windmills again!  The Conservative party seem to be mad about them, but then the fools seem to think that if they build enough windmills they will stop 'global warming' in this country.
I assume that not one of them has a science degree.

[Cassandra]

The 'Irish' Greens made a big deal about Wind farms powering 32% of Ireland's electricity last month.

"Hopefully, this is a sign of trends that will continue out over the course of the rest of the year," he said.

"We're continuing to build more onshore wind energy; it's having a very positive impact in the price reductions that we're seeing currently in the market and that will continue over the coming months.

What happens though for the 68% of the time when the wind don't blow?

Irish Green Economics   says build more of them - stupid morons! You can have a million windmills and if the wind don't blow they're all producing zilch! You presently can't store the stuff and if you could, imagine the fire risk of say a million EV batteries in line at one location!

Greens should be a notifiable disease, along with the entire EU ...

[Michael Rolls]

too daft for words!

[klondike]

What happens though for the 68% of the time when the wind don't blow?

Import lot's of AAs from China

[dextrous63]

What happens though for the 68% of the time when the wind don't blow?

You need to think outside the box Cass.  Get a load of greens and convicts to run around, carrying the turbines with them.  If the wind won't go to the turbines....😬

[JBR]

I have said repeatedly that we should invest more in nuclear power.
Don't need to wait for the wind to blow, or the sun to shine.
And stop whingeing about disposal of used fuel.  We have hundreds of disused mine shafts; put them to use if you're not going to extract any more coal.

[dextrous63]

I have said repeatedly that we should invest more in nuclear power.
Don't need to wait for the wind to blow, or the sun to shine.
And stop whingeing about disposal of used fuel.  We have hundreds of disused mine shafts; put them to use if you're not going to extract any more coal.

Or sell them on eBay.  Bound to be some weirdo who can find a use for them 😬

[klondike]

That is indeed one of the problems...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb

[muddy]

How do the wind machines cause landslides ? 

[JBR]

How do the wind machines cause landslides ?

Do they?  Where did you see that?

[klondike]

How do the wind machines cause landslides ?

Something that tall on top of peat needs some pretty good foundations. I'm guessing that as it says on the video "Footage captured during the event, and by drone afterwards, hints that the storage of crushed rock on the peat might have triggered the landslide." the digging, heavy machinery and materials involved in constucting those foundations on top of what sounds like a huge area of peat disturbed it enough that a thick top layer started moving and just kept on going downhill.

[Raven]

How do the wind machines cause landslides ?

Not the wind machines, it's all the digging and disturbance to the peat fields.

[JBR]

Something that tall on top of peat needs some pretty good foundations. I'm guessing that as it says on the video "Footage captured during the event, and by drone afterwards, hints that the storage of crushed rock on the peat might have triggered the landslide." the digging, heavy machinery and materials involved in constucting those foundations on top of what sounds like a huge area of peat disturbed it enough that a thick top layer started moving and just kept on going downhill.

I was unaware of this.  In fact, I cannot believe that the people responsible for siting those windmills didn't have the common sense to consider the strength of suitable foundations and the type of land on which they were erecting those things.
Then again, this is 2024.

[Raven]

I was unaware of this.  In fact, I cannot believe that the people responsible for siting those windmills didn't have the common sense to consider the strength of suitable foundations and the type of land on which they were erecting those things.
Then again, this is 2024.

They were warned over and over by the locals of what would/could happen. But they went ahead anyway....Money wins again.