{"id":2334,"date":"2005-12-01T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T19:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2005-12-01T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T19:07:57","slug":"big-windfarm-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/big-windfarm-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"big windfarm, big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there was a stramash that the RSPB published a map showing where the Lewis wind farm would reach if it started in Edinburgh<\/a>. Oh noes! Looks like it’d go all the way to Methil.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working on a couple of medium-sized wind farms in Ontario. For top laughs, I tried overlaying them on Scotland, using streetmap.co.uk<\/a> for the measurements.<\/p>\n

Since I’m a weegie, I started at George Square<\/a>. One of the farms would stretch all the way west by Wishaw, near Murdostoun Castle (and the comically-named town of Bonkle<\/a>). The other would run north to somewhere between Fintry and Kippen, in Stirlingshire.<\/p>\n

For those of you unlucky enough to be based east of Falkirk, I tried the same starting at Edinburgh Castle<\/a>. The first wind farm would run west to the hamlet of Gilchriston, which is just north-west of Dun Law Wind Farm<\/a>, which I worked on in the distant past. (If you run the farm west from Edinburgh, you end up in Bo’ness, which no-one would want to do.) The other design would end up somewhere between Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes, near Thornton — and not that far from Methil, a distance that the RSPB would have us believe is just too far for a wind farm.<\/p>\n

So, where’s the news, RSPB? How did your land get somehow more precious than ours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there was a stramash that the RSPB published a map showing where the Lewis wind farm would reach if it started in Edinburgh. Oh noes! Looks like it’d go all the way to Methil. I’ve been working on a couple of medium-sized wind farms in Ontario. For top laughs, I tried overlaying them on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15,8],"tags":[705,857,964,144,871,1447,676,1433,479,34,1046,33,72,147,593,786,1199,115,480,73,1412,571,1269,217,59,608],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","category-the-old-country","category-wind-things","tag-art","tag-bbc","tag-bc","tag-comic","tag-cover","tag-design","tag-edinburgh","tag-geo","tag-glasgow","tag-google","tag-law","tag-map","tag-maps","tag-ontario","tag-pen","tag-ppe","tag-scotland","tag-shed","tag-sign","tag-streetmap","tag-tree","tag-twee","tag-ugh","tag-uk","tag-wind","tag-zed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-BE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}