Scotland was once basically a giant forest – but around only 4% of native woodlands now cover the nation’s landmass.
2000 years ago, by the time the Romans first arrived in Scotland, the nation had already lost at least half of the natural woodland which it once had. Much of it was replaced by peatland, which is why Scotland still has so many peaty bogs.
Only around 1% of Scotland’s native pinewood trees remain.
Forest cover in Scotland is now around 16%, but only around 15% of that is from native trees.
As long as its not the native trees, who cares. The space will proably be used for sheep as well.
She said many of the felled trees will have been “replanted on site” or replaced elsewhere, and the vast majority were part of a commercial crop that would have been chopped down anyway “at the end of their rotation”.
Hopefully what they planted was native trees, but your average person doesnt think or care about shit like that!
What they do see is the temporary imbalance of everything, and i would likely be upset too if it were messing with my livelihood, but once everything is grown in and some balance is put back. The pros seem to far outweigh the cons.
My issue with windmills, is they do seem to kill alot of birds. And people bitch about cats ^^.
My issue with windmills is that, in the abscence of massive storage capacity, they're too unreliable to take a single coal plant out of servive, no matter how many GW they produce.
Windmills can only supplement nuclear, coal or probably hydro power. Wind energy is 'dirty' energy. It needs to go into a larger 'pool' of good stable energy like nuclear. With nuclear you can precisely control the voltage or megawatts or whatever. Whereas the wind is irratic. Once the wind energy goes into the larger stream it takes on that stable frequency.
Morag Watson, director of policy at trade body Scottish Renewables said: “The volatile price of imported gas has left energy consumers suffering some of the highest prices in living memory
Gee, if only there were massive reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea that could be developed domestically...
All I care about is what happened to the chopped down trees. Were they made into charcoal? Did they become lumber? How many toys for homeless children were manufactured out of the wood? I guess the trees were tossed into a mulcher and then made into compost. Naw, it probably was put onto a huge gas burning ship and moved to India. Hah, better yet, I bet Claus Schawb and Soros dreamed up this idea and had the trees cut down on the Scotish tax payers dime, shipped overseas in gas burning ships, then the trees were shaped or formed into something useless, like whisky casks, and then shipped back to Scotland on those same gas burning ships and then sold back to the Scotish people, but with a higher price tag, which was subsidised by the tax payers, yet again.
This green waste will be much worse than the one from nuclear power plants, the later being a reliable source of energy. I know a way of storing CO2: plant trees.
NJ’s Governor moved to make it illegal to sell new internal combustion engine cars by 2035, they are pushing to wreck a wind farm off our coast and people will continue to vote for these people. Cutting 16 MILLION trees down “for the environment” is the scariest thing I’ve read all day.
I hope they didn't waste the trees.
Look at the price of timber. Someone made bank.
They have already proven to be idiots. If they sold that, that was probably the reason all along.
Coulda fooled me.
I didnt think they had that many.
https://travelness.com/why-are-there-no-trees-in-scotland
As long as its not the native trees, who cares. The space will proably be used for sheep as well.
Hopefully what they planted was native trees, but your average person doesnt think or care about shit like that!
What they do see is the temporary imbalance of everything, and i would likely be upset too if it were messing with my livelihood, but once everything is grown in and some balance is put back. The pros seem to far outweigh the cons.
My issue with windmills, is they do seem to kill alot of birds. And people bitch about cats ^^.
https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/renewables/weekly-data-how-many-birds-are-really-killed-by-wind-turbines/
My issue with windmills is that, in the abscence of massive storage capacity, they're too unreliable to take a single coal plant out of servive, no matter how many GW they produce.
Windmills can only supplement nuclear, coal or probably hydro power. Wind energy is 'dirty' energy. It needs to go into a larger 'pool' of good stable energy like nuclear. With nuclear you can precisely control the voltage or megawatts or whatever. Whereas the wind is irratic. Once the wind energy goes into the larger stream it takes on that stable frequency.
Capt'n, I canna empty the woodchipper fast enough. It's straining the dilithium crystals!
Kirk: Bones, WTF wears a kilt in space? I think our engineer is a tranny.
McCoy: I saw him kissing the navigator.
Kirk: Shit. Khaaaaaan!
Gee, if only there were massive reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea that could be developed domestically...
All I care about is what happened to the chopped down trees. Were they made into charcoal? Did they become lumber? How many toys for homeless children were manufactured out of the wood? I guess the trees were tossed into a mulcher and then made into compost. Naw, it probably was put onto a huge gas burning ship and moved to India. Hah, better yet, I bet Claus Schawb and Soros dreamed up this idea and had the trees cut down on the Scotish tax payers dime, shipped overseas in gas burning ships, then the trees were shaped or formed into something useless, like whisky casks, and then shipped back to Scotland on those same gas burning ships and then sold back to the Scotish people, but with a higher price tag, which was subsidised by the tax payers, yet again.
https://archive.is/2hwES
This green waste will be much worse than the one from nuclear power plants, the later being a reliable source of energy. I know a way of storing CO2: plant trees.
NJ’s Governor moved to make it illegal to sell new internal combustion engine cars by 2035, they are pushing to wreck a wind farm off our coast and people will continue to vote for these people. Cutting 16 MILLION trees down “for the environment” is the scariest thing I’ve read all day.