Halt 'blot' of wind farms: Prince Charles

[foo_bar]

The Prince of Wales believes that wind farms are a "horrendous blot on the landscape" and that their spread must be halted before they irreparably ruin some of Britain's most beautiful countryside.

Prince Charles, who has an abiding interest in environmental issues, has told senior aides that he does not want to have any links with events or groups that promote onshore wind farms.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/08/1091903444427.html?feed=rss

Cervantes: 400 years before his time.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Well, that makes so very little sense.

[Fenris]

7. DAMN you and your pro-wind farm bias!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. I love wind! I love it!

[Fenris]

15. Yes! And you hate the monarchy! I'm onto you, communist!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. I'm not communist. That implies I like community. Not me.

I hate people, the grasping fucks.

[Fenris]

17. Anti-social quasi-socialist!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Crypto-syndicalist Greedhead!

[Fenris]

22. Anti-Christian anarchist!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. Cheese-loving, hound-lactating Belgian robot!

[Fenris]

24. Child-eating Icelandic boozehound!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. Eskimo-throttling malevolent pig-distorting Albanian!

[Fenris]

28. Manbeast-pleasuring peanut-farming Jesuit!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. Top-heavy finch-felching mungle-brunging wankbot!

with hives.

[Fenris]

30. Syphilitic broom-sodomizing frog-killing Dalek!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Curd-muffling, turd-poggling, shill-crumbling mungrudge!

[Fenris]

32. Octagonal Blair-loving crab-infested mugwump!

[bleedingheart]

2. As the article states this goes against his relatively "green"

stance on issues.

I do know that he is an architectural snob...he has made many snide comments about modern architecture so this might be another pet peeve of his...big windmills ruining the view of the countryside.

Personally I think they are really cool...

[Vickers]

3. A blot? Maybe he meant blight. Eh, who cares, he means nothing to me

I actually think they look lovely.

[foo_bar]

4. isn't blot the past tense of blight?

[GiovanniC]

13. I Figured It Was a British Thing

Like "buggered" or "randy".

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

5. Consider the source.

Price Charles ain't exactly "a rocket scientist".

[madaboutharry]

6. Prince Shmuck

I think wind farms look lovely too. The cleanliness of them is almost spiritual. Prince Charles is a moron. I thought we only had them over here.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Charlie is all frustrated he is NOT KING

Fuck him

or as they say in England

Fuck OFF

[olddem43]

19. Like our present monarch, has done nothing all his life.

Just a parasite on the public tit.

[Bjornsdotter]

37. Yes they do....

...there is a wind farm on the Danish shore near Copenhagen...when you are crossing the bridge from Sweden you see them and they are beautiful....it reminds me of ballet.

As far as Prince Charles....waaaay too much inbreeding

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[enki23]

9. you've gotta be kidding

couple this with his "grey goo" inspired, irrational fear of nanotech, and charlie seems to qualify as a bit of a nut.

[Bridget Burke]

10. He prefers refineries?

And strip mines?

[Terran]

25. I guess so.

He'd prefer to see the British countryside dotted with lovely tall nuclear plant cooling stacks. :eyes:

[supernova]

11. As opposed to what, Charlie?

You don't like wind farms? Do you prefer coal or nuclear power?

Man, that guy is dense.

[opihimoimoi]

41. No shit, he is dense.... does nothing but play polo and shit...

He should PISS OFF

BTW Who cares what he thinks ??

Who the fuck is he anyways? Not one iota of neurons show when he speaks....fuck off charlie ... and forget about the KING THING. Moms gonna take it to her grave and the monoarchy will be disbanded...its not worth a shit anyway...

[maxsolomon]

14. eventually he will be right

we could cover the country in solar panels & wind turbines & still not reach the current level of energy use we get from fossil fuel.

[enki23]

18. i'm willing to bet that's a factually untrue statement

but, obviously, you're deliberately exaggerating.

[jpak]

38. Wind farms would require 4% of the land area of the lower 48

to provide all current US electrical demand.

This does not include offshore wind farm potential.

Photovoltaic arrays would require less than 0.5% of the land area of the lower 48 to provide all current US electrical demand.

How much to replace all fossil fuel consumption?

I don't think anyone has done that math - but we don't have many options here, do we....

[Gregorian]

21. Then start talking about population

I love these so-called environmentalists who choose to not talk about the cause of it all. Energy useage doesn't just happen. People make it happen. More people, more energy useage. Unless we stop taking warm showers, and stop cooking and stop driving.


(Would it be such a crime to ask people to not have more than two kids? That way we'd stay at this intolerable level of six billion.)

[Lorien]

33. Population; the greatest taboo in politics

NPR had a report on this last year, saying that no politician could talk about ZPG and expect re-election (anywhere on the planet). Those who have many children are still praised in every society, while those who choose not to are considered "selfish". At current consumption rates, we will run out of ALL resources in 50 years (according to the Sierra Club), but population will double in twelve years. So where does that leave us? Will a twenty year old today ever make it to fifty? Or will earth become another Easter island; deforested until the topsoil eroads so much that growing crops is no longer an option, then wars over remaining resources until all that's left is a barren landscape? It's not a very promising future.

[BiggJawn]

42. I'm sure out of step, then...

I have to strain to keep from going up to people herding 6-7-8-more kids at the store and saying "Hey, have you ever tried TROJANS? You can't even feel them anymore the technology's so improved"

Seriously, why does anyone need 12 kids anymore? to help on the FARM? Shit, man, you haven't fired up the tractor and put a crop in since you got that job at Wabash National 10 years ago, but you're still knocking her up every year...Because GAWD "commands" it? So how "fruitful" is "Fruitful Enough"? Ahh, you can't tell 'em anything...

[Lindacooks]

27. Actually, Chuck, YOU are the blot

on the English landscape, you good for nothing leech.

[TexasSissy]

34. What's the problem with wind farms. Just too many windmills or what?

I mean, they are quieter and safer than nuclear power plants. Cleaner, too. More attractive, too. And self-renewing, which nuclear power plants are not.

So what's the beef? Is it that to produce massive power it requires just way too many windmills? Is that it?

[TexasSissy]

35. HE IS AGAINST ONSHORE windfarms, NOT offshore ones.

And for the REAL reason: his estate has tons of land suitable for windfarm use, so there's a threat they'd be put on HIS duchy.

He says they can and should be put offshore.

Another renewable energy foundation person says that windfarms cannot produce the capacity needed.

So that's it in a nutshell.

[Vickers]

36. But, wouldn't that be a blot on the seascape?

:crazy:

Man, I can't STAND blots. Blots suck!

[frank frankly]

39. Charles, go fuck yourself.

and, yes, fuck your throne and the last sad preposterous remnants of your "monarchy".

perhaps we should begin drilling for oil on his property. maybe he finds oil rigs more asthetically pleasing.

[mr blur]

40. The man is a twerp.

An extremely rich, ignorant, blinkered, selfish dickhead. One of our Royal family, in fact.