People keep complaining about wind turbines ruining the view, but I look at them on the moors turning in the wind and I'm just like windy bois

@helenclayton @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn enjoy! It's such a fun place, and I hope the course is useful!

@vicorva @FrazzledBrynn I love them too. I think they are like moving sculptures in the landscape.

@FrazzledBrynn It's hilarious that people think the views are even natural anyway. Moors should be forests, but we cut those down centuries ago. Landscapes have been shaped by people forever. Turbines and solar panels are just the newest thing. And better to have them than a coal-fired power plant or an open cast mine. Now that's ugly!

@afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn yes, I’m looking forward to it. I’m trying to recall whether I visited as a student in the 90s - I came on a field trip to Wales to study renewables but can’t remember much about that trip!

@krnlg @FrazzledBrynn one of my favourite cycling "whoa!" moments was cycling next to where they store off shore blades near the docks Hull. My brain just couldn't compute the size of them.

This is the satellite view of the area - https://maps.app.goo.gl/RezbKJzofHjp7NNv6 - they're as long as the nearby warehouses!

I love big on-shore ones too. Small ones (like domestic ones) spin a little too frantically to enjoy fully but the big ones are so majestic, in their slow turns.

@RolloTreadway @afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn no more than mine…like me going on a field trip to Wales which may or may not have included a trip to CAT . I remember seeing wind turbines (and that the pub near where we stayed was not terribly welcoming to a bunch of students from England ).

@FrazzledBrynn These can be removed entirely in a couple of weeks. Try this with a nuclear plant...

@Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn oh wow what was your MSc?

@helenclayton @afewbugs @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn Do share any shareable materials, it’s rapidly changing.

@Maker_of_Things @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn we should request a picture of @helenclayton next to it too when she goes, then we can make a montage of Mastodon Folk To Scale

@RolloTreadway @helenclayton @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn I don't think the standard of replies has to be "useful", just a conversation you know?

@afewbugs @RolloTreadway @Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn indeed, most of my replies on here aren’t useful

@FrazzledBrynn I like them, including the ones I can see from my house. More please.

@helenclayton Hi Helen, jumping in here. Did you do BSc Environmental Science at Plymouth, by any chance?

@NellytheWillow jump away! No, I did mine at Leeds (Plymouth felt too close to home ). Is that where you went?

@FrazzledBrynn When @diffrentcolours and I were in Minneapolis, we walked past an office building for an energy company that had, as like a decoration, one turbine blade outside lying on the ground. It was like a small airplane wing.

@afewbugs
It was.
Architecture, Environment, And Energy.
I didn't finish it as there was a disagreement about my thesis subject. I wanted to be around public transport, but was told it wouldn't fit with the course.
I argued that public transport worked around all aspects of the subject, but in the end I was ill and gave up the struggle and left with a diploma.

I miss it, and would liked to have done more, if I were able.

@Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn

@helenclayton Yes, it was - very, very close to home! Leeds and Plymouth must have run very similar field trips. I suppose the choice was more limited in the 90s. It was 1989-92 for me.

@afewbugs
I will need to see if I can find the 20 year old photo.

@Heliograph @FrazzledBrynn @helenclayton

@NellytheWillow Yes, you’re probably right about the choice then. I was 95-98 after a year out. For the field trip half of my group went to do something in South Wales which didn’t sound as interesting as my choice. Then the Sea Empress oil spill happened and they were right in the thick of it and changed plans. Envious isn’t the appropriate word at all in the circumstances but env chemistry was my specialism and I rather felt I had picked the wrong field trip option.