Gerda Spence, Author at New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ Science news and science articles from New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ Fri, 23 Apr 1993 23:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 242057827 Letters: Tilting at windmills /article/1829181-letters-tilting-at-windmills/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Fri, 23 Apr 1993 23:00:00 +0000 http://mg13818706.100 Your reader Robert Ormiston-Chant has ‘been told that Denmark currently
has about 3500 wind turbines in service and that they contribute about 2
per cent of the electricity requirement’. He says he is appalled by the
damage to visual sensitivity these cause for such a ‘pathetic gain’ (Letters,
20 February).

I have been going to Denmark every year recently and consequently have
seen quite a few of these modern windmills. Actually, they strike me as
being every bit as pleasing to the eye as the old windmills, whether, as
they usually are, placed singly in farmyards or whether placed in awesome
double ranks on a jetty.

I suggest that your reader takes a quick trip to Denmark and then tells
us what he thinks once he has actually seen the windmills.

Gerda Spence Brussels

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