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Philip_A

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  1. " Yes, I read it and broadly understood it. " Apologies. We may be seeing things in the same light. > I was highlighting an inconsistency here with the way numbers are being used by windfarm supporters. I get your point about the right way to do this... you are preaching to the converted. That's a plus, and a surprise too from what I've seen. > Plenty of people are bothered and have been fighting for years. Have they, though? If that's so, why is it still in play? > I'd just be interested to know what you think is wrong with the "fight for this place". You know there is a bit more than shetlink and SN to this fight. Not from what I've seen so far. 125 pages of Shetlink 'dissent', and about six years of unproductive comment about it on the SN and elsewhere, and the LKP is still being argued; and what else to show for it? Look at the date and time-stamp on this reply for a clue.
  2. "Y es, I read it and broadly understood it. " Apologies. We may be seeing things in the same light. > I was highlighting an inconsistency here with the way numbers are being used by windfarm supporters. I get your point about the right way to do this... you are preaching to the converted. That's a plus, and a surprise. > Plenty of people are bothered and have been fighting for years. I'd just be interested to know what you think is wrong with the "fight for this place". You know there is a bit more than shetlink and SN to this fight. Is there? Show me.
  3. " Yes, I read it and broadly understood it. " Apologies. We may be seeing things in the same light. > I was highlighting an inconsistency here with the way numbers are being used by windfarm supporters. I get your point about the right way to do this... you are preaching to the converted. That's a plus, and a surprise. > Plenty of people are bothered and have been fighting for years. I know - but the collective history that I mentioned suggests that they haven't been fightiing effectively. > I'd just be interested to know what you think is wrong with the "fight for this place". You know there is a bit more than shetlink and SN to this fight. Is there? Where is the evidence, based on how long this futile argument about the LKP has gone on? I'm not being confrontational - those who know me well know exactly why that is - I would really like to know.
  4. " es, I read it and broadly understood it. " Apologies. We may be seeing things in the same light. > I was highlighting an inconsistency here with the way numbers are being used by windfarm supporters. I get your point about the right way to do this... you are preaching to the converted. That's a plus, and a surprise. > Plenty of people are bothered and have been fighting for years. I'd just be interested to know what you think is wrong with the "fight for this place". You know there is a bit more than shetlink and SN to this fight.
  5. Regarding the last three posts: 1) - Egbert-Mcwhirter, on 23 Oct 2013 - 6:38 PM Thank-you kindly for your approval - but I 'do' engineering, not politics. To expand: What I do is not 'what is it called?', but 'what does it do, and how does it work in practical terms?' 2) - ArabiaTerra: I see that you are quoting what SA have released as 'data' - '52% efficiency over more than 10 years of operation' - without questioning (or probably even understanding) its meaning. Worse than that, you didn't read my SN post properly, and didn't see fit either to reply to or rebut it outside of this 125-page 'forum' where it might have done some good in terms of advancing the debate. The very fact that this forum has run to 125 pages, all of it leading nowhere but here - and that the various arguments for and against the Lang Kames Project have run to six years or more on various newspapers - suggests to me that Shetland is either clutching at straws while praying for a stress-free 'alternative-miracle' fantasy future, or simply doesn't care what happens to it in the coming years 3) - Ched You can't win it - the standard definitions regarding wind turbines is all about ' keeping things hid' as some members of my generation might have put it. The only reliable practical approach is to locate and examine the various wind turbine manufacturers' power curves online, and then see what they actually tell you regarding how much energy those turbines are capable of developing at a 6 m/s annual-average wind speed. That was the entire thrust of my recent post on the SN - 'don't take my word for it, this is how to find out for yourself'. But you knew that already from reading it, right? I won't be posting here again - or on the online newspapers either. If you people (as indigenous residents) can't be bothered to fight for this place as a sane outpost of the UK, why should I?
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