The sun has been hanging around for three days now and everything is finally drying out.If we get another couple of days I might get the first cut on the grass.
We have four wind farms in our line of sight here on the island and more are planned.
There is a team of surveyers checking the sea bed on the farm dirrectly in front of us ready for clearing any debris sch as old wrecks and ordnace from our on shore batteries fired in the war.When this is done the sea bed will be drilled to a depth of 30ft ready for the support pylons for another 82 turbines to go with the 102 already there. 45square miles of sea and they try to tell us it will not disturb the sea life.
These turbines are built in Germany and shipped piece by piece to storage in Ireland. When the supports are ready large barges will ship the turbines 80 miles into position again piece by piece to be assembled by huge floating cranes. When assembled power cables will be run under water righ across Morcambe Bay to Heysham and fed into the national grid. The only thing is the Irish sea is not the best place for the steady 20/25 mph winds they need to be effective. Maybe a few days in summer it will but not in the harsh winters when we are lashed with storm after storm and the power is likely to be needed. The carbon footprint for these beasts must be enormous,how green is that??. 25years on when their life cycle is finished what then? an almighty salvage job? there again not very green.