2012
NN9806 : Green Knowes wind farm
taken 11 years ago, near to Glendevon, Perth And Kinross, Scotland
Green Knowes wind farm
Turbines at the Green Knowes wind farm. It is increasingly difficult to avoid these developments while walking in Scotland, with large and small scale wind energy power stations sprouting on many hillsides. This technology is highly contentious - on the one hand Scotland is envisaged as becoming the Saudi Arabia of renewables (1), while conversely, peer-reviewed research in Germany has concluded that "although promotion of renewable energies is commonly portrayed in the media as setting a “shining example in providing a harvest for the world” we would instead regard the country's experience as a cautionary tale of massively expensive environmental and energy policy that is devoid of economic and environmental benefits" (2).
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