Wind Farm tourist boom

[albion]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7xjr0l5do.amp

Cycling, I find the approach to any windfarm quite inspiring, Green Rigg Wind Farm, in particular, a fairly main 'sandwich stop' for me.
That Wind Farm 'tourist boom'does imply that the Nimby objections are a big minority, so I wonder, does anyone else enjoy Wind Farm visits/stops?

 

[Drago]

The wise, adventurous, and above-average-good-looking explorers of CycleChat relish a visit to a nice wind farm...

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...able-energy-generation-baggers-thread.273883/

 

[Mike Ayling]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7xjr0l5do.amp

Cycling, I find the approach to any windfarm quite inspiring, Green Rigg Wind Farm, in particular, a fairly main 'sandwich stop' for me.
That Wind Farm 'tourist boom'does imply that the Nimby objections are a big minority, so I wonder, does anyone else enjoy Wind Farm visits/stops?

I don't consider them a blot on the landscape but some people living close to them claim health issues.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I walked up quite close to a big windmill/turbine. There was a bit of a light swoosh as the blade went through the low point. But one has to be right up to it to even hear that. Much better than a coal fired power station chucking out lots of fumes on the "health issues". And I quite like them in the scenery too.

 

[matticus]

Can you pet them?

 

[MontyVeda]

Quite a lot of people seem to ride up to Caton wind farm. And if you want a bit of off road, there's a decent bridleway down the other flank into Claughton (pronounced Clafton).

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Can you pet them?

You could, but maybe from behind or when they are resting, otherwise it might get a little bit sore!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

claim health issues.

Some people are weird

 

[hobo]

The Munda Biddi trail goes past these.

 

[Drago]

I don't consider them a blot on the landscape but some people living close to them claim health issues.

Although they're healthy enough to consume the electricity thus generated.

 

[Jameshow]

There is a small road between llandiloes and cefin lea in mid Wales, nice short cut so I thought!
It goes it 1000ft to a wind farm. No fun with a loaded touring bike!!

 

[ianrauk]

Standing below a windmill somewhere in France

 

[numbnuts]

No wind mills in my neck of the woods, but I would like to see one

 

[matticus]

There is a small road between llandiloes and cefin lea in mid Wales, nice short cut so I thought!
It goes it 1000ft to a wind farm. No fun with a loaded touring bike!!

Where's that then? typo? Google doesn't know it :- /

 

[presta]

I'm not sure I'd want to see the fells in the Lake District spoilt with wind farms, and yet I used to quite like the golf balls on Fylingdales, and was a bit sad to see those go. (The new phased array is a lot less obtrusive, but not particularly pretty.) I'm rather a fan of the Ribblehead viaduct, and yet I'm sure that must have been regarded as an eyesore when it first went up.