Re: 300GB Hard Drives

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Harris wrote:

>There are two big wind generators on a route I take frequently and they
are
>fairly often stationary ...
>
>... Bloody annoys me when all the tree hugging bleeding hearts bleat
and
>bitch about "We must use more renewable energy" and so on but
at the end of
>the day they also complain about filling up the "unspoiled
beautiful parts
>of the country" with hundreds of the things (the one at Reading is
f*ck*ing
>enormous!), they don't want 'em close to where people (well, OK, where
>*THEY*) live because of the noise (and they are noisy), they cost a
fortune
>to build and errect and it seems to get conveniently forgotten that if
it
>happens to be a still day then no corrie! (Ah well, I suppose there has
to
>be one upside of putting all your eggs in a windpowered basket, no?)
>
>Phil
>
>
>
10 have just appeared on the edge of my village.  First I knew about
them was when I spotted them driving to work on Monday morning.  I bet
they were put up without planning permission.  They're so large that you
can see them towering over the village when more than 2 miles away.

Personally I find one turbine to be quite elegant, but more than one
just makes a whirling mess.  I wish they'd stop using my taxes to
subsidise them - I hate seeing my money wasted on a solution that fails
even the most basic requirement (i.e to provide reliable power 24/7).

Perhaps if TPTB got their fingers out and built that fusion reactor, we
could just wait a few years and build those instead.

Mal