Denmark is the First to Fall

clobber_2

Oh, me too. Used to regularly drive past a small wind farm - marvellous things.

Bf109

The point about windmills is that they are built in places where no-one else could expect permission to build anything. And the reason for that is to preserve whats left of our countryside. It doesnt matter if you find them ugly or pretty. Many people thought the Tricorn centre was beautiful when it was built. Building these turbnes over our most prized natural assests with so much concrete and steel makes a mockery of conservation, particularly when they generate such a pitiful amount of power.

And even then we will still need the same number of nukes/coals/gas power stations to supply power when there is not enough or too much wind.

I agree that the greens oppose everything but I'm not a green in the conventional sense of the word.

mr.broderick

posh*spice wrote: »

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Recession hits Europe...:o
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Will this have any affect on my bacon? If not i couldn't give a monkey's.

Snooze

BiggaThanBen wrote: »

and trasportation - Maersk (largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world) ..

Are you sure about that? I think it's actually Nippon Yusen Kaisha (better known as NYK) who is the biggest shipping line now and I believe (don't quote me..) that they recently(ish) swallowed up Hapag-Lloyd too.

Rob

Snooze

Personally I quite like the wind farms and find them quite majestic and imho don't spoil the countryside at all. However, I wouldn't want to live near one -

Have you heard how much noise they make?? :eek:

Rob

havethis1

Snooze wrote: »

Personally I quite like the wind farms and find them quite majestic and imho don't spoil the countryside at all. However, I wouldn't want to live near one -

Have you heard how much noise they make?? :eek:

Rob

I called them the exact same thing the other day on another forum

WTF?_2

Another vote for wind farms.

They look nice from a distance and IMO don't constitute building over the landscape - their footprint is very small and you can, for example, plonk them down in a real farm and continue to use the land around them.....

tradetime

Could be quite a queue for this recession party.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a_PqhUStacAg&refer=uk

setmefree2

tradetime wrote: »

Could be quite a queue for this recession party.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a_PqhUStacAg&refer=uk

Thrown to the wolves - makes you really glad we are not in the Euro Zone:rolleyes:

WTF?_2

setmefree2 wrote: »

Thrown to the wolves - makes you really glad we are not in the Euro Zone:rolleyes:

Countries like Spain and Ireland (and Italy and Portugal) should never have entered the Eurozone in the first place.

It never suited them but until now the effect was to stoke the boom further so everyone thought it was a good thing. Now, membership is going to exacerbate the pain of recession.

In fact, although the Euro has positive aspects it's mostly been brought about by political considerations rather than economic ones.