{"id":2901,"date":"2009-10-19T05:47:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T05:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2009-10-19T05:47:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T05:47:49","slug":"upland-britain-with-a-blanket-cover-of-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/upland-britain-with-a-blanket-cover-of-wind-turbines\/","title":{"rendered":"Upland Britain with a blanket cover of wind turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2902\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2902\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/upland-britain-with-a-blanket-cover-of-wind-turbines\/palm_springs_wind_turbines\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2902\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2902\" title=\"palm_springs_wind_turbines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/palm_springs_wind_turbines.jpg\" alt=\"Palm Springs may show how Upland Britain will look in the age of renewable energy\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/palm_springs_wind_turbines.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/palm_springs_wind_turbines-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/palm_springs_wind_turbines-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/palm_springs_wind_turbines-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palm Springs may show how Upland Britain will look in the age of renewable energy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>David MacKay states that onshore wind farms are likely to generate 2W\/m2 and offshore wind farms to generate 3W\/m2. To supply the UK energy demand of 50kWh\/day would therefore require an area twice the size of Wales to meet the demand with from offshore farms and three times the size of Wales to meet the demand from onshore wind farms. Wales (8,022 sq mi ) has approx 8%\u00a0 of the area of the UK. At present 13.5% of the UK is urbanized. David MacKay asks &#8216;would the public accept and pay for such extreme arrangements?&#8217; Please study the above photo of Palm Springs in California before giving an answer. Some people might find a blanket of turbines ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland has 32% of the UK&#8217;s land area and only 8.4% of the population, so it would be relatively easy to win a democratic vote to blanket Scotland with wind turbines and solve the UK&#8217;s energy problem, though the cost would be high. We could omit the Forth-Clyde Valley and include parts of Northumberland and Central Wales\u00a0 in the interests of &#8216;equity&#8217;. Too many southerners have holiday homes in the Lake District for this area to be included &#8211; so it could be a good place for property investment.<\/p>\n<p>Above image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/slworking\/\">slworking <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2936\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/upland-britain-with-a-blanket-cover-of-wind-turbines\/arthurs_seat_edinburgh3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/arthurs_seat_edinburgh3.jpg\" alt=\"Would the Scots mind having wind turbines embellishing Arthur&#039;s Seat and Edinburgh&#039;s historic skyline?\" title=\"arthurs_seat_edinburgh3\" width=\"775\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/arthurs_seat_edinburgh3.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/arthurs_seat_edinburgh3-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/arthurs_seat_edinburgh3-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/arthurs_seat_edinburgh3-624x328.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would the Scots mind having wind turbines embellishing Arthur's Seat and Edinburgh's historic skyline?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David MacKay states that onshore wind farms are likely to generate 2W\/m2 and offshore wind farms to generate 3W\/m2. To supply the UK energy demand of 50kWh\/day would therefore require an area twice the size of Wales to meet the demand with from offshore farms and three times the size of Wales to meet the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,13,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}