After a rest day yesterday to catch up on our washing etc this morning we awoke to rain.
Thinking the weather may improve, Mick had a rest from continuous driving on the Isle of Man and Roy drove us down to a place called Murton, county Durham.
A new shopping centre called Dalton Park has been built there on 55 acres of land and it includes a large parkland set aside with various wildlife habitats. In the centre of the parkland there are nice wetland ponds.
Whilst Lyn and Davina went in to shop, Roy and Mick walked the marked out tracks in search of wildlife. As it was so new and had no trees to speak of it was obvious that by and large the wildlife hadn't found it yet. They only managed to spot a Moorhen who had a friend in the reeds and some pied wagtails.
Maybe in a few years when the trees grow the wildlife population will grow including the aquatic life such as frogs in the wetlands. They were surprised not to have heard a single frog there as the ponds areas looked very healthy.
As it was raining steadily they decided to collect the girls and head home passing the turnoff for Chester-le-Street on the dual carriageway. For all you cricket fans you will know that Chester-le-Street is where Australia played England in one of the recent cricket matches.
In the picture below there is a wind farm in the background. These are all over England, on land, and at sea and many seaside resorts have views of massive wind farms just offshore. Mick reckons it looks awful.
Here is a report we read recently in the paper:
Thinking the weather may improve, Mick had a rest from continuous driving on the Isle of Man and Roy drove us down to a place called Murton, county Durham.
A new shopping centre called Dalton Park has been built there on 55 acres of land and it includes a large parkland set aside with various wildlife habitats. In the centre of the parkland there are nice wetland ponds.
Whilst Lyn and Davina went in to shop, Roy and Mick walked the marked out tracks in search of wildlife. As it was so new and had no trees to speak of it was obvious that by and large the wildlife hadn't found it yet. They only managed to spot a Moorhen who had a friend in the reeds and some pied wagtails.
Maybe in a few years when the trees grow the wildlife population will grow including the aquatic life such as frogs in the wetlands. They were surprised not to have heard a single frog there as the ponds areas looked very healthy.
As it was raining steadily they decided to collect the girls and head home passing the turnoff for Chester-le-Street on the dual carriageway. For all you cricket fans you will know that Chester-le-Street is where Australia played England in one of the recent cricket matches.
In the picture below there is a wind farm in the background. These are all over England, on land, and at sea and many seaside resorts have views of massive wind farms just offshore. Mick reckons it looks awful.
Here is a report we read recently in the paper:
"Data released by one of the largest green energy companies shows wind farms
producing enough electricity only to boil two to three kettles at a time.
At one stage last week, three big wind farms even took electricity out of the
National Grid - to run basic power supplies on site - rather than actually
supplying electricity to households.
The wind farms’ owner said that in still conditions electricity “import” can
occur for a few hours until the wind picks up. Such a phenomenon is known in
the industry as “parasitic consumption”.
The data reveals just how much electricity is being generated by each wind
farm at a given moment.
It is published by RWE power renewable, a subsidiary of a German energy
company operating 27 wind farms across England, Scotland and Wales."
Solar panels are very big over here as well and can be seen on many roofs. On a news item the other night it said that they don't produce anywhere near the amount of electricity as the countries on the continent which seems logical as they don't get nearly as much sun in the UK
Solar panels are very big over here as well and can be seen on many roofs. On a news item the other night it said that they don't produce anywhere near the amount of electricity as the countries on the continent which seems logical as they don't get nearly as much sun in the UK
Dalton Park.. Note the wind turbines in the background. Yes it was raining.
BTW Happy Birthday Lyn for today.
ReplyDeleteThe problem of renewable energy has been in the media and Europe is finding that they have thrown huge amounts of money to subsidize the installations of wind and solar for very little gain. The main result has been large increases in the cost of power to everyone to pay for the subsidies. Germany will stop all this now as renewable power is far to costly and too unreliable. Australia has not learnt as yet.
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