"Offshore wind farms will one day stand derelict and crumbling in our seas, testament to the stupidity of humankind in the pursuit of nonsense...."
Just when you thought they could not cram any more wind turbines into the Irish Sea, the Crown Estate has announced that it is considering the installation of more of the monsters off the Cumbrian coast, adding to the frenzied industrialisation of our coastal waters. The Irish Sea is already home to the world's biggest offshore wind farm at Walney and the ugly Burbo Bank development in Liverpool Bay. In an astonishing triumph for backward thinking, this means more sea pollution and more damage to the environment from an intermittent and inefficient source of energy. Nuclear Plant Cancelled... To add insult to the injury that wind farms cause to the natural world, came news of the cancellation of the Moorside nuclear plant which was to have been built on the same Cumbrian coast close to where the hare-brained turbines will now be installed. The promise of efficient, cost effective and reliable nuclear energy, from what would have been a state of the art nuclear plant, has now been dashed at least for the moment. If the billions thrown at wind energy had instead been invested in a new reliable, cheap and clean nuclear plant at Moorside then we might have made some progress towards responsible and sustainable energy production. Wind Energy = Fairy-tale Ideology Instead, as the Irish Sea fills with ever more steel, plastic, concrete - and noise - in the form of huge wind turbines, one can only wonder at the stupidity of humankind whose dogged worship of a fairy-tale ideology is causing the destruction of much that is truly precious in this world. The wind farms that we are allowing to be constructed today, apparently at the expense of nuclear energy, will come to be seen as the biggest of mans' follies. They will one day stand derelict and crumbling in our seas, testament to the stupidity of humankind in the pursuit of nonsense.
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