Jonathan Dimbleby - Patron Saint for Domestic Wind Turbines
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One of the major hurdles that faces domestic wind turbines is opposition from the dreaded neighbors.
Broadcaster Jonathon Dimbleby, experienced this first hand after he gained permission to build a home wind generator in his garden. He was treated as a villain by his village in South Devon, England, as locals complained that it would be a menace to the countryside.
Dimbleby defended himself saying that he too was once against them for reasons of aesthetics, but now realizes that they could literally save our lives.
In a way, I'm glad that this has happened, because it brings into the public eye just how difficult it can be to install a wind turbine. Dimbleby sets a great example, saying that he doesn't worry about being ostracized.
Objections that his turbine will damage wild life are brushed of with ease by the former president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It seems the locals have met their match.
I read one comment in The Times,
"These good people are right to complain. These ghastly wind turbines are a blot on the landscape amd simply won't work when the wind doesn't blow... After all, he doesn't live there so why should he have the right to upset those who do?".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6735186.ece
What most people fail to realize is that we all have to live on this one planet and one person is upsetting the environment then they are upsetting it for all humankind.
I think it is absurd that people complain about such petty things at the end of the day Britain has one of the best wind resources to be found anywhere in the world. By rights those with domestic wind turbines should be complaining that their neighbored haven't followed suit.
Broadcaster Jonathon Dimbleby, experienced this first hand after he gained permission to build a home wind generator in his garden. He was treated as a villain by his village in South Devon, England, as locals complained that it would be a menace to the countryside.
Dimbleby defended himself saying that he too was once against them for reasons of aesthetics, but now realizes that they could literally save our lives.
In a way, I'm glad that this has happened, because it brings into the public eye just how difficult it can be to install a wind turbine. Dimbleby sets a great example, saying that he doesn't worry about being ostracized.
Objections that his turbine will damage wild life are brushed of with ease by the former president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It seems the locals have met their match.
I read one comment in The Times,
"These good people are right to complain. These ghastly wind turbines are a blot on the landscape amd simply won't work when the wind doesn't blow... After all, he doesn't live there so why should he have the right to upset those who do?".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6735186.ece
What most people fail to realize is that we all have to live on this one planet and one person is upsetting the environment then they are upsetting it for all humankind.
I think it is absurd that people complain about such petty things at the end of the day Britain has one of the best wind resources to be found anywhere in the world. By rights those with domestic wind turbines should be complaining that their neighbored haven't followed suit.