tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post6963008952773892233..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Urgent news - Cornwall is pretty much the same as it was two years' ago!Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-86466216151515093012015-10-30T17:02:09.443+00:002015-10-30T17:02:09.443+00:00One day, I expect, wind farms will receive a whole...One day, I expect, wind farms will receive a whole chapter to themselves in a book entitled, "Myths and Legends of the Pre- Europistan Era".Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-89283268435776274892015-10-30T16:49:10.964+00:002015-10-30T16:49:10.964+00:00No, I travel to South-West Scotland for that sort ...No, I travel to South-West Scotland for that sort of thing. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-36122213986815565912015-10-30T16:47:38.352+00:002015-10-30T16:47:38.352+00:00We tend to stay away from the sea - they do say sh...We tend to stay away from the sea - they do say she be a cruel mistress, right enough, ah-har.<br /><br />Actually, that's a right old serious crossing you were on. We tend to confine ourselves to the five minute ferry ride between Rock and Padstow. Fortunately, they've built a nice big wind farm on the hills above Padstow, which can be seen from every angle and from miles away. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-54333444941358812422015-10-29T08:47:01.808+00:002015-10-29T08:47:01.808+00:00Did you take your guitar with you and engage in &q...Did you take your guitar with you and engage in "duels" with local banjo players?SDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-22553393701248330142015-10-29T02:54:55.895+00:002015-10-29T02:54:55.895+00:00Lovely photos.The sea is a vital part of Cornwall&...Lovely photos.The sea is a vital part of Cornwall's history.As a nipper I experienced the roughest 'voyage' imaginable on the ferry from Penzance to the Isles of Scilly which partly explains all the shipwrecks in the area.Talk about freak waves It was so bad that a doctor was called to attend to my mother who later quipped that at first she was terrified the vessel would sink and then she wished it would.The two and a half hour trip turned into a nightmarish four hours.The return trip was all calm and peace,not a wind turbine in sight and a joy sailing into harbour.<br />southern mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-37192865987938354612015-10-28T11:06:50.505+00:002015-10-28T11:06:50.505+00:00I spent two long summers on the west coast of Scot...I spent two long summers on the west coast of Scotland about ten years ago and met a very well-informed research scientist working with the Hydro-Electricity chaps. His view of wind turbines was clear:<br />spectacularly inefficient in the generation and transmission of electricity; they create an enormous carbon debt in their construction; they create enormous ecological damage in the construction of the platforms (as noted by G Cooper) not just the concrete itself but in the roads and tracks built to get to the sites.<br />Of course, the Blogmeister's is right; the visual horror and loss of tourist revenue are incalculable but diabolical.<br />A plague indeed.Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191599030795096843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-84718377413828456142015-10-27T20:25:22.090+00:002015-10-27T20:25:22.090+00:00I'm relieved to learn you were simply dossing....I'm relieved to learn you were simply dossing. The abrupt and lengthy radio silence had me worrying that something might have broken, or dropped off.<br /><br />Your curse on the windfarm magnates and facilitators can't come to fruition too soon. Though I was horrified to learn, when a rash of the damn things was planted in a particularly beautiful area near where I live, that they are each buried in many tons of concrete which, whatever fate may eventually befall them, will never be removed.<br /><br />So much for the hippies' love of the natural landscape. May they rot in hell.GCoopernoreply@blogger.com