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June
'04
ALTERNATIVE POWER SOURCE
'Tis
a cold wet Sunday and I've just returned from presenting The Tony
Beard Sunday Request Show on .
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Devon downpour |
'Tis
bucketing down with rain and the wind is blowing a gale - and on
top of all this the 'lectric light' is blinking every five minutes
and threatening to go off completely.
All this natural energy going to waste from the wind which is trying
its best to blow the house away and take the electricity supply
with it. What better time than now to consider alternative energy
sources!
Wind
Farms? - this seems to be the only alternative being
discussed these days.
What
controversy it's causing in our local newspaper, The Western Morning
News - which has been running a long campaign on the subject - and
here on the message
boards of 成人快手 Devon Online.
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| What
do you think about windfarms? Have your say on our message
board |
It
appears that the majority of contributors rue the day when the countryside
is plastered with these large, highly intrusive to the eye, contraptions.
Especially when they may arrive near their own homes.
Having
seen, and heard, the ones in Cornwall, the thought of them on the
Devon coasts and hills and even worse on Dartmoor or Exmoor fills
me with dread.
What is more, their sudden appearance over the horizon as one drives
along the beautiful countryside is, I am afraid, ultimately going
to be the cause of accidents as drivers take their eyes off the
road at the sight of them.
I would
like to suggest an alternative which I feel has not been explored
enough. Here in the South West we get more than our share of rain,
so why not put THAT to good use?
I am going to champion water power.
Not the harness of wave power, as that too is likely to involve
more great monstrosities, stood off our lovely beaches and coastline
similar to those on the land windfarms.
I want to harness our rivers.......
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find
out how >>> |
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