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More likely to be vibrations in the turbines that transmit into the peat and destabilise it.
Once it has been destabilised then the wind would blow the trees. The wind farms tend to be built in windy areas.
I read that out loud to the Mrs 5 minutes ago and she's been laughing since then and saying "bollocks" intermittently.
Peat behaves like a thick viscous liquid. The ecological and geological surveys would preclude anything risky being built and the foundations go down to the bedrock below the peat.
Also. She is/was involved in pretty much every single windfarm in the British Isles for the past 26 years.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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Don't you know people have had enough of experts?
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IIRC peat is 10cm every 100 years.
I'm not sure any windfarms have been built in Yorkshire on peat bogs. Not even sure that would be possible.
At the moment the bogs up here are getting dams built to stop the water draining off them. They used to be deliberately drained for the farmland below them. This has now stopped.
It's now recognised that peat is the UK's most important carbon storage.
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read that out loud to the Mrs 5 minutes ago and she's been laughing since then and saying "bollocks" intermittently.
Julia can laugh and curse all she likes, but I stand by the post.
All I claimed was that my (admittedly unlikely) theory was more likely than the turbines creating a breeze that blows the ground, using the trees like a sail.
The fact that my idea is less likely than the real explanation is neither here nor there.
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Yeah, I don't think the turbines make the wind...
More likely to be vibrations in the turbines that transmit into the peat and destabilise it.
Once it has been destabilised then the wind would blow the trees. The wind farms tend to be built in windy areas.