The RSPB are fully in favour of wind farms, so your sudden ornithological concern is misplaced. Of course, they do interfere with the sonar of bats and kill some birds, but what effects do the harvesting of other power sources have on wildlife?
Wind farms repay the energy they cost to build in a year, whereas nuclear power stations currently take on average more than seven years to reach that goal - and that is without considering the problem of containing the material when they shut down. Which they all do one day.
Without wind farms we have no chance of meeting EU renewable energy targets and stand to be fined. Now, you may hate the EU, but whatever your feelings about that it remains true that we'll face huge fines if we don't increase our renewable energy use.
I don't know what Greece has to do with your banal argument (it is), but it seems you already have a metaphorical scatter gun to go with the real gun you claim to want when the 'lights go out'.
Of course, these are all facts and might not be very interesting to you.
Last edited by Rory Waterman; 12-28-2012 at 05:56 AM.
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