Giant Wind Turbines May Be a Risk to National Security

Wind Farms have long been suggested as the ideal way forward where renewable, environmentally energy sources are concerned ,and they seem to be an excellent and worthwhile choice as far as conservationists are concerned. However, even this seemingly good idea has run up against objections.

In the United Kingdom where the northern part of our island group is quite high up and gets a lot of wind and storms, it has long been suggested that much more should be done to take advantage of that wind. A few spaced out wind turbine shave been erected but there has been no concerted effort to really get things going.

There are windmills in parts of the north already but there always seem to be objections. Residents in some area have complained that these huge giants will ruin the landscape and that pollution will cause a problem. However, the same people are happy to use electricity generated in huge commercial plants in other areas of the country. That's OK with them, unless the industrial complexes have to be built near where they live.

Then animal conservationist claimed that bats were in danger of being injured by these great big windmills. Apparently the frequency of the vibration from the blades on the turbines disturbs the sonar which helps the bats to echo locate.

Now, the Ministry of Defense in Great Britain has said that wind farms could hamper seismological testing equipment which is used to monitor nuclear tests.

There are , nonetheless, several energy plants that want to build huge wind turbines in the north of England, especially in the Cumbrian Mountain area.

The military are still objecting and now say that any development of this kind within fifty miles of a monitoring station would cause problems for them by sending huge waves through the air and earth which would upset their equipment.

The need for renewable energy resources with fewer carbon emissions grows, but every time someone comes up with a likely solution, someone else objects and finds problems. In this particular case the objection is probably not reasonable because there are already huge wind turbines in operation in Cumbria and the South of Scotland and the huge three bladed windmills are a common sight.

Surely all these possible problems can be addressed and resolved if experts put their knowledge together to work on potential difficulties, instead of disagreeing with each other and pulling in different directions.