Turbine decision blows ill wind for Mersea (From Gazette)

These wind turbines are a blot on the landscape.

Nuclear is the best way forward.

They could paint them half white half blue from a distance they will match in with the horizon.
If near trees and buildings the same, half green and half red brick or grey colour just depends on the surrounding area.
I guess we could see what robert mellor can suggest, thats if he knows the area!!.

I'm sure the good people of West Mersea would rather see a wind farm than the menacing nuclear power station that they have had to look at for the last 50 years.
Bradwell certainly doesn't need another nuclear power station. Demolish the present one, very carefully, and then never again.
There are plenty of alternatives to nuclear power. Wind turbines are beautiful structures.

I'm so very sorry that the good people of Mersea will have their view across the Blackwater blighted by wind turbines.

Perhaps they would like to swap places with the equally good folk of Bradwell & Tillingham, who have fought long and hard to stop NPower and will have their LIVES blighted by the construction of these monsters.

Perhaps 'Boris' would change his mind if they were being built in HIS back yard!

This is a sad day for Bradwell.

Voter99 wrote:
These wind turbines are a blot on the landscape.

Nuclear is the best way forward.

How naive. Have you seen the state of Bradwell? How on earth can anyone call wind turbines a blot on the landscape, especially in comparison to that grey, ugly building that generates power using nuclear energy - lethal when they go wrong and which produce waste that we bury in the ground for 1000 years because we still don't know what to do with it. Wind turbines might need maintenance and kill a few birds that that is a negligible loss compare to the alternative. They also create maintenance and installation jobs, which I seem to remember you crying recently that there are not enough of in this area.

I don't know when the public are going to realise that wind does not substitute for nuclear power, which forms the base of base-load supply.

The most rabidly pro-wind report to date, which is invariably referenced by the BWEA, Greenpeace and FOE, states: "It would be unrealistic to assume that wind energy would displace any nuclear capacity". ('Wind Power in the UK', Sustainable Development Commission. 2005. p35).

Wind is additional to conventional power stations and the power industry, Ofgem and National Grid all agree that it will necessitate even more gas-fuelled power stations being built, further reducing our energy security.

Wind farms make negligible CO2 reductions owing to conventional fossil fuel spinning reserve and were almost permanently inactive over winter. Mains power turns rotors awaiting wind. Electricity cannot be delivered at peak demand periods or stored so much is wasted. They cause grid failure. They produce `dirty electricity' (EMF) 60Hz waveform surges polluted with high frequency transients affecting nearby residents.
They affect TV and mobile phone reception, aircraft radar (MOD and CAA). Amplitude modulation from turbines inflicts suffering on those with cochlear ear implants. Research into `Amplitude modulation' was stopped on a flimsy excuse by governmental wind energy officials with vested interests. An eminent government noise working group consultant resigned as a result.
Wind turbines are a PR exercise for the uninformed majority causing more harm than good, producing no useful power. There is no mandatory public safety guidance for choosing turbine locations. Medical advice is not sought and health research is stifled by government wind industry officials. Prolonged inaudible infrasound causes physiological cell damage to residents living within 2 kilometres of giant industrial turbines. This includes seizures and cognitive changes in the brain. Political climate change doctrine prevents research funding by all governments into these problems. Threshing type noises may be heard many miles from giant industrial turbines especially in the quiet early morning hours causing sleep deprivation to many. Wind farm neighbours are suffering and abandoning homes they are unable to sell in locations world wide.
The wind industry (and BWEA) are sole beneficiaries of politically lead man made global warming doctrine through massive government subsidies.
Shards of ice (up to 1200mm long) fell from the rotors of a giant (125 meter high) industrial turbine 65 meters from a home at Whittlesey for 4 hours in November 2008 causing roof damage. It could have killed a child and should never have been placed there. Government and local authority ineptitude are to blame yet they will not move it. Blade shear occurred twice on a turbine adjacent a public road in Sheffield.
The clean green image of giant industrial wind turbine generators placed close to homes is a national and international disgrace.

JRDEN wrote:
Wind farms make negligible CO2 reductions owing to conventional fossil fuel spinning reserve and were almost permanently inactive over winter. Mains power turns rotors awaiting wind. Electricity cannot be delivered at peak demand periods or stored so much is wasted. They cause grid failure. They produce `dirty electricity' (EMF) 60Hz waveform surges polluted with high frequency transients affecting nearby residents.
They affect TV and mobile phone reception, aircraft radar (MOD and CAA). Amplitude modulation from turbines inflicts suffering on those with cochlear ear implants. Research into `Amplitude modulation' was stopped on a flimsy excuse by governmental wind energy officials with vested interests. An eminent government noise working group consultant resigned as a result.
Wind turbines are a PR exercise for the uninformed majority causing more harm than good, producing no useful power. There is no mandatory public safety guidance for choosing turbine locations. Medical advice is not sought and health research is stifled by government wind industry officials. Prolonged inaudible infrasound causes physiological cell damage to residents living within 2 kilometres of giant industrial turbines. This includes seizures and cognitive changes in the brain. Political climate change doctrine prevents research funding by all governments into these problems. Threshing type noises may be heard many miles from giant industrial turbines especially in the quiet early morning hours causing sleep deprivation to many. Wind farm neighbours are suffering and abandoning homes they are unable to sell in locations world wide.
The wind industry (and BWEA) are sole beneficiaries of politically lead man made global warming doctrine through massive government subsidies.
Shards of ice (up to 1200mm long) fell from the rotors of a giant (125 meter high) industrial turbine 65 meters from a home at Whittlesey for 4 hours in November 2008 causing roof damage. It could have killed a child and should never have been placed there. Government and local authority ineptitude are to blame yet they will not move it. Blade shear occurred twice on a turbine adjacent a public road in Sheffield.
The clean green image of giant industrial wind turbine generators placed close to homes is a national and international disgrace.

Nice copy & paste there. Would have been easier for you to supply the link to the website you stole that propaganda from. There is no evidence to support your allegation that "prolonged inaudible infrasound causes physiological cell damage to residents living within 2 kilometres of giant industrial turbines". Your quote of the Sheffield case is the same old case used by the usual scare-mongers and turbines at sea don't cause people to loose sleep. If your going to start quoting unfounded information, why don't we look at nuclear "In the worst accident considered, expected once in 100,000 melt-downs (once in 2 billion years of reactor operation), the cancer deaths would be among 10 million people, increasing their cancer risk typically from 20% (the current U.S. average) to 20.5%. This is much less than the geographical variation--- 22% in New England to 17% in the Rocky Mountain states". People can pick that crap from anywhere. It's the poor attitude of people like you that's the national and international disgrace.

These turbines are an eyesore just look at the coastline at Clacton to prove that, how any one can say they are beautiful(Boris the creep) all i can say is get out more.

itsgary wrote:
These turbines are an eyesore just look at the coastline at Clacton to prove that, how any one can say they are beautiful(Boris the creep) all i can say is get out more.

People said the same about the original grain milling windmills - now they're consider beauty. Get over yourself.