Its not like we has a record temperature just the other day, right?
Good to him finally tackling the big issues, Tory pensioners not liking to see physical signs of progress in their eyeline, or an eyeline they imagine they might some day have to briefly experience.
Tory leadership contenders all tripping over themselves to ensure everyone they don’t take the Long Emergency of climate dislocation at all seriously.
You know what else causes “distress and disruption” Rishi? When it’s 40 degrees outside.
These old conservative bastards would watch the world burn rather than have to look at a windmill on a hill instead of just a hill.
This guy really understand the important business of the day. Feelings and profits are more important than long term sustainablility and survival.
Well let’s look at this for what it is.
How many of us live in the wide open countryside where a windfarm is a possibility?
The vast majority of people who’s view is a wide open vista of loveliness don’t vote Labour.
Then again I will be very surprised if he becomes PM the Male/Pale/Stale of the Tory party would rather anyone than God forbid someone not White become PM.
TBF, onshore wind has run out of fashion in favour of its cooler brother, the offshore kind. The latest CfD awards proved that – you can build at much bigger scale, much easier permits, easier to link to the grid
Still, if this is the kind of NYMBYism Sunak stands for he will not have a chance of solving other issues like the housing crisis, for instance. Not great from him
To be fair, offshore windfarms are able to produce significantly more power from the same number of turbines.
Plus with the increase in floating technologies the turbines will start to have less and less effect on the sea bed.
Although I’d rather see investment in nuclear for 60-70% (off-peak demand) of our total demand and a mix of various renewables for the rest. Nuclear cannot be quickly or easily changed so it needs to run at a constant below the minimum demand threshold.
I can see a wind farm in the distance where I live in Yorkshire. I think it looks kind of beautiful actually. I must be in a minority.
“Sorry, my mates are in fossil fuels, can’t have any of this renewable energy lark if I’m gonna funnel more money to them”
The irony is, this is out of touch *even with Conservative voters*. Even when asked about wind farms in their local area, the majority are in favour.
I thought Tories were against regulation? Why are they stopping the private sector make profit and jobs?
Come on Rishi let’s not half arse it, show the trees who’s boss and burn them all down. 🙄
Ah yes choosing old people’s views from their houses, rather than helping the energy crisis. Fantastic
The lad is a complete fud.
We need more green power, more nuclear, more storage, more active travel, more insulation, more housing (probably medium-to-high density, not sprawling estates), and on and on and on.
If the last few days have not been a wake-up alarm for folks and a call to arms, then we are truly and *absolutely* **fucked**.
We must not see any more climate busting devices on our brown, unpleasant land!!
Even if they were the ugliest thing on Earth..its what they do that makes them beautiful and necessary!!
This topic always has made no sense to me. I argued with my GCSE geography teacher that some people like to see wind farms and it makes them happy. He kept telling me off and that I was wrong. Old fart.
We love traditional water windmills but apparently hate electricity producing wind farms.
I wish it would make sense.
This guys so detached from the general public it genuinely shocking.
Rishi Sunak says he will not allow his wife to pay taxes on her income.
Rishi Sunak confesses he is a self serving ex banker inviting American companies to peck at the carcass of the NHS.
Rishi Sunak says he doesn’t have working class friends.
Fuck this guy. I’ll be voting for independence next year.
There is a problem with on shore wind where they start to take up _all_ the land. It’s not like you can pack them in a tight space. They need huge amounts of land and stop you using the land for some other purposes.
So there is only so many we can build. And they’re also disproportionately going to be built in certain parts of the country and not others. There’s some parts of the country where youre nearly surrounded on all side by hundreds of what are basically power plants.
Off shore wind doesn’t have the same kind of problems. Less impact on the land, less local disruption, less impact on the local environment.
Limiting on shore wind is detrimental to my pension. So it’s not like I saw this because it’s beneficial to me
I don’t like the guy at all, but he actually said he would massively expand offshore wind farms, partly because of all the complaints locals make concerning onshore wind farms.
But this is how the Independent spins it, and loads of people on this sub fall in line and get incredibly angry about the headline. See how this works?
How much is he being paid by fossil fuel companies?
FUCKING TWAT. Too tired from working 14hr days to give a thought out response so I going with this! Fuck the tories and fuck him.
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Its not like we has a record temperature just the other day, right?
Good to him finally tackling the big issues, Tory pensioners not liking to see physical signs of progress in their eyeline, or an eyeline they imagine they might some day have to briefly experience.
Tory leadership contenders all tripping over themselves to ensure everyone they don’t take the Long Emergency of climate dislocation at all seriously.
You know what else causes “distress and disruption” Rishi? When it’s 40 degrees outside.
These old conservative bastards would watch the world burn rather than have to look at a windmill on a hill instead of just a hill.
This guy really understand the important business of the day. Feelings and profits are more important than long term sustainablility and survival.
Well let’s look at this for what it is.
How many of us live in the wide open countryside where a windfarm is a possibility?
The vast majority of people who’s view is a wide open vista of loveliness don’t vote Labour.
Then again I will be very surprised if he becomes PM the Male/Pale/Stale of the Tory party would rather anyone than God forbid someone not White become PM.
TBF, onshore wind has run out of fashion in favour of its cooler brother, the offshore kind. The latest CfD awards proved that – you can build at much bigger scale, much easier permits, easier to link to the grid
Still, if this is the kind of NYMBYism Sunak stands for he will not have a chance of solving other issues like the housing crisis, for instance. Not great from him
To be fair, offshore windfarms are able to produce significantly more power from the same number of turbines.
Plus with the increase in floating technologies the turbines will start to have less and less effect on the sea bed.
Although I’d rather see investment in nuclear for 60-70% (off-peak demand) of our total demand and a mix of various renewables for the rest. Nuclear cannot be quickly or easily changed so it needs to run at a constant below the minimum demand threshold.
I can see a wind farm in the distance where I live in Yorkshire. I think it looks kind of beautiful actually. I must be in a minority.
“Sorry, my mates are in fossil fuels, can’t have any of this renewable energy lark if I’m gonna funnel more money to them”
The irony is, this is out of touch *even with Conservative voters*. Even when asked about wind farms in their local area, the majority are in favour.
I thought Tories were against regulation? Why are they stopping the private sector make profit and jobs?
Come on Rishi let’s not half arse it, show the trees who’s boss and burn them all down. 🙄
Ah yes choosing old people’s views from their houses, rather than helping the energy crisis. Fantastic
The lad is a complete fud.
We need more green power, more nuclear, more storage, more active travel, more insulation, more housing (probably medium-to-high density, not sprawling estates), and on and on and on.
If the last few days have not been a wake-up alarm for folks and a call to arms, then we are truly and *absolutely* **fucked**.
We must not see any more climate busting devices on our brown, unpleasant land!!
Even if they were the ugliest thing on Earth..its what they do that makes them beautiful and necessary!!
This topic always has made no sense to me. I argued with my GCSE geography teacher that some people like to see wind farms and it makes them happy. He kept telling me off and that I was wrong. Old fart.
We love traditional water windmills but apparently hate electricity producing wind farms.
I wish it would make sense.
This guys so detached from the general public it genuinely shocking.
Rishi Sunak says he will not allow his wife to pay taxes on her income.
Rishi Sunak confesses he is a self serving ex banker inviting American companies to peck at the carcass of the NHS.
Rishi Sunak says he doesn’t have working class friends.
Fuck this guy. I’ll be voting for independence next year.
There is a problem with on shore wind where they start to take up _all_ the land. It’s not like you can pack them in a tight space. They need huge amounts of land and stop you using the land for some other purposes.
So there is only so many we can build. And they’re also disproportionately going to be built in certain parts of the country and not others. There’s some parts of the country where youre nearly surrounded on all side by hundreds of what are basically power plants.
Off shore wind doesn’t have the same kind of problems. Less impact on the land, less local disruption, less impact on the local environment.
Limiting on shore wind is detrimental to my pension. So it’s not like I saw this because it’s beneficial to me
I don’t like the guy at all, but he actually said he would massively expand offshore wind farms, partly because of all the complaints locals make concerning onshore wind farms.
But this is how the Independent spins it, and loads of people on this sub fall in line and get incredibly angry about the headline. See how this works?
How much is he being paid by fossil fuel companies?
FUCKING TWAT. Too tired from working 14hr days to give a thought out response so I going with this! Fuck the tories and fuck him.