Paddy Power To Keep The Lights On.

[HomerJay]

I heard about this on the radio yesterday and the guy they got in to explain the plan had me cringing. He kept talking about them "pumping" electricity through cables.

That is so fucking stupid, it'll just flow naturally downhil from Ireland.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you lot build these turbines to the west of us, does this mean we get less wind in Bighty?

Ultimately yes. I believe there are studies that predict considerable climate change effects coming from the use of wind turbines on a huge scale. Something for nothing just doesn't exist.

Yep, about a much disturbance in the atmosphere as a large stand of trees.

[klr]

If you lot build these turbines to the west of us, does this mean we get less wind in Bighty?

Ultimately yes. I believe there are studies that predict considerable climate change effects coming from the use of wind turbines on a huge scale. Something for nothing just doesn't exist.

Yep, about a much disturbance in the atmosphere as a large stand of trees.

We could do with some of that effect. Ireland used to be largely covered with forest until a few hundred years ago. Then the Brits cut most it down, or something like that.

[Jason]

Cut down to build Sir Walter Raleigh's fleet IIRC.

[klr]

Cut down to build Sir Walter Raleigh's fleet IIRC.

... and to remove a place for the uppity locals to hide in.

[JimC]

If you lot build these turbines to the west of us, does this mean we get less wind in Bighty?

Ultimately yes. I believe there are studies that predict considerable climate change effects coming from the use of wind turbines on a huge scale. Something for nothing just doesn't exist.

I would be very surprised if any such effect was high enough to be measurable. The actual proportion of energy extracted from a mass of moving air as it goes across a line of wind turbines is very low indeed. Although there may be some effects within a few km of the site, by the time an air mass has passed over Ireland and reached England, for all practical purposes you should not see any difference.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you lot build these turbines to the west of us, does this mean we get less wind in Bighty?

Ultimately yes. I believe there are studies that predict considerable climate change effects coming from the use of wind turbines on a huge scale. Something for nothing just doesn't exist.

I would be very surprised if any such effect was high enough to be measurable. The actual proportion of energy extracted from a mass of moving air as it goes across a line of wind turbines is very low indeed. Although there may be some effects within a few km of the site, by the time an air mass has passed over Ireland and reached England, for all practical purposes you should not see any difference.

Chicago would have a vastly more impactful micro-climate.

[Cormac]

If you lot build these turbines to the west of us, does this mean we get less wind in Bighty?

Ultimately yes. I believe there are studies that predict considerable climate change effects coming from the use of wind turbines on a huge scale. Something for nothing just doesn't exist.

Yep, about a much disturbance in the atmosphere as a large stand of trees.

We could do with some of that effect. Ireland used to be largely covered with forest until a few hundred years ago. Then the Brits cut most it down, or something like that.

I think we'd already cleared a great deal by Raleigh's time - for farming, and so on.