In Whitelee, near Glasgow  today the United kingdom’s largest wind farm was turned on and it’s changed the face of the map forever.  A 140 turbines are now spinning their little hearts out as we speak and can produce enough renewable energy to suppy a small town.  But as usual there are concerns from some professional bodies and the local residents.

There have been reports that the seagull population has been halved, quite literally, already.  Parts of this breed have been spread all over the Scotish coastline when the migrating  fools flew straight into the blades of the turbines.  But don’t worry Haringey council has jumped on this opportunity to rid the area of their seagull problem and have boxed up and forwarded 60,000 breeding pairs of the sky rat to Whitelee, some of whom have never seen the sea or been on holiday.  So it’s a win win situation alround.

Some say it’s a bid to massage the Scotish unemployment figures.  Scientist say that the turbines can rotate at a speed of a 120mph each and if two more are erected that part of the British Isles will simply take off.  Further figures show that a dozen more turbines could float that part of the coast as far a field as Sardinia.  If I owned an airline I think I’d start looking into this form of transport before someone beats me to it!!!

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