A few weeks ago I made a “screetching tyres” visit to West Wales, to the Tal-Y-Bont Show to be exact. We moved there from England when I was 3 (returning after 10 years). It was, and still is a beautiful but foreign country. Half my lessons were in Welsh which I could speak fluently. My rugby was pretty good too.
Anyway, on this return visit, I noticed that Airtricity is proposing a 140MW wind farm on Nant-y-Moch. This is the view from the top of Pumlumon. A lot of the landscape around that reservoir will be covered with turbines.
Now the reservoir itself is of course man made from the Elan Valley project. I guess that when fusion power or some other such system is perfected, the turbines can be removed. On balance the climate issues logically conclude that they have to be built. But it is a hard choice to have to take.
actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.-;’