wind turbines

Gruts

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I have a cast-iron alibi

Wind-felled wind turbines: sabotage suspected.

Turbine update

Local turbine has not turned for over three months shock.

Hugging trees while Rome burns

Some clueless twat with more money that sense has just erected a wind turbine on the moor above our house.

Goldilocks power generation

Wind powerstations don't like the wind to be "too calm", and they don't like it to be "too strong"; they like it to be "just right".

On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk

There’s barely a page without a surprising fact…whether it’s about a vacuum flask, a hawk or a bilberry. […] Begin the book as you would a moorland walk, happy to put the route map away and just follow where the sheep trods take you—then you’ll likely find the surprising turns and unexpected views a suitable reward.
—Nick Small, Caught by the River

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