So pleased our boat trip was postponed, had a marvelous day yesterday stalking Morris dancers and the weather today was just glorious, if a tad hazy with a sea fret.
1st image showingthe array of 116 turbines 8 miles off Brighton
2nd image underneath showing that annoyingly the blades do not turn in unison
3rd larger image, shows the substation that diverts the energy and sends it ashore
Interesting website which I don't think mentions the name Rampion was the winning enty in a competition, because it it is a flower that grows locally (and doesn't in the leat resemble a wind turbine!)
So much interesting info to go with these super images. 116 is such a large number that they must power a large area - they seem a lot less worrying that the 8 Nuclear Power Generators currently being suggested over here...
I love windfarms. They are trying to put windfarms here offshore in our area and people are up in arms about it saying it is going to upset the whales. Bloody Luddites. As Rob says @robz the other option is nuclear and the moment has long past for nuclear power stations in Australia.
The minute I read Rampion was a flower I remembered it from the story of Rapunzel