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The wrong kind of wind It was a breezy night last night in England, and because such times are rather rare in these islands we aren’t really organised for it. When the wind does blow a bit, there is damage. There are even deaths. Not funny.
But, this is funny. It’s a wind turbine in Devon, looking somewhat the worse for …. wind:
My thanks to commenter number one, on this posting at Bishop Hill today.
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The perfect metaphor 😉
All this fuss about a wind turbine, it’ll quickly blow over.
5000 wind-farms, and one falls over in extremely rare high winds.
The wind industry was very lucky. The damaging winds cut through an area with almost no wind farms from Dorset to Essex.
https://restats.decc.gov.uk/cms/assets/Uploads/Results_2012/Jun2013-Wind-onshore-offshore-v2w.jpg
From its size (27 M), it looks like this was a privately owned windmill on a farm. Not really the sort of thing libertarians ought to criticize (although industrial wind is still fair game, of course).
PersonFromPorlock,
I’d say that this whole post is a fairly lighthearted “yah boo sucks” to the wind power enthusiasts, so I don’t read too much into any of it. But, on that understanding, isn’t it the case that most all so-called privately owned windmills on farms are actually farming state subsidies of various kinds?
Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong on that, but that was the impression I had got.
Natalie,
No idea how it works in the UK, but chances are you’re right. One thing most modern ‘farms’ (read “Big Ag”) don’t raise is the flag of free marketism.
Mr. Ed, *Ee-e-ewww!!* :>))!!