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Viv Forbes 28 December 2021
Whirling Triffids are now Invading our Seashores "I saw them now with a disgust that they had never roused in me before. Horrible alien things which some of us had somehow created, and which the rest of us, in our careless greed, had cultured all over the world. One could not even blame nature for them." Bill Masen, in “The Day of the Triffids” Wind turbines need a huge area to generate significant electricity. An area the size of Wales would need to be covered in wind turbines just to meet one sixth of UK’s daily energy needs. So for years now, subsidised wind energy investors have been razing ridgelines, felling forests and slicing birds, bats and insects. They trash the landscape to benefit a few landowners and speculators in a vain attempt to produce cheap reliable electricity from a low density, unpredictable, intermittent energy source. This is all driven by a blurry green vision that humans can change the climate by manipulating the atmosphere. But neighbours and nature-lovers are fighting back. So now the wind speculators race for off-shore space in shallow seas. “The Day of the Triffids” is coming for coastal communities as these towers of whirling knives accelerate their invasion of shallow coastal waters. They pose lethal danger to sea 1