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Ecotricity Show - Our Response Print E-mail
Well the Ecotricity show of the year is over!

Following on from the Prince of Wales venue, the library two week display was a non-event. Few people I spoke to in Dursley were even aware of it. As for the Prince of Wales exhibition - it can only be summarized as the standard display of how insignificant the wind industry would like you to think that these 120m high monsters turbines are.

The photomontages on display were totally misleading, none showed any reference objects to give you any idea of scale. The photographs were too small with inadequate viewing distances for a public display. Who wants to stand less than 330mm to a display board to see its content?! In fact their quoted viewing distance was too big for the size of the image. It should have been nearer 220mm, based on an image 127mm high...!

The only useful purpose these Ecotricity photomontages serve is to show you the approximate position of the turbines in the landscape. As for the true scale of these monsters just look at the real life 70m high mast from along side Standle Lane or any where else you can see it and use this photograph (click!) to estimate what its true impact upon the landscape will be...




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