Storm Darragh has ripped through hundreds of panels at the Porth Wen solar farm and destroyed a wind turbine. The Mail has more.
Hundreds of panels at the giant 190-acre Porth Wen solar farm in Anglesey, North Wales – only built two years ago – were blown off their mountings, some ripped to shreds.
The site at Llanbadrig, in the north of the island which is owned by French power firm EDF Energy and powers up to 9,500 households, now needs significant repairs.
Elsewhere on the island of Anglesey, blades were sheared off a wind turbine which then reportedly caught fire.
Work was continuing yesterday to reconnect thousands of homes left without power and reopen a string of railway lines in Wales and the West Country which were blocked by fallen trees.
Storm Darragh brought severe gusts which reached 96mph at Berry Head, Devon, and gales to the whole Irish Sea coast extending eastwards inland. …
A statement from an EDF Renewables U.K. spokesperson said: “Unfortunately our Porth Wen Solar Farm has sustained damage during Storm Darragh. We are currently assessing the extent of the damage and conducting a controlled clean up.
“Once the initial recovery efforts are complete and the damage is fully assessed, we will carry out a full investigation and when safe to do so, resume generation. Repair work and the replacement of damaged panels is expected to carry on into early 2025.”
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Steven Robinson
1 year ago
Very good. Gets to the heart of the matter, not least in questioning the wisdom of the attempt by assorted intellectuals over the last few centuries to substitute an ersatz ‘Religion of Humanity’ for the real thing.
The harm principle is worthless without a definition of harm. If people are free to define cause harm as exhale (as they did), all of human live becomes subject to legitimate execution of power and that’s certainly not what Mill meant.
But that is exactly where we are now. There seems to be no burden of proof when it comes to claims of harm. At least not in the political or social sphere. Harm is whatever one claims it to be.
Why we just take every claim of harm being inflicted at face value is something that I don’t completely understand.
E.g. You are breathing the virus out and infecting me. Evidence? Proof? Even if you stand back a bit? Nothing, the claim is accepted without question.
E.g. Your reluctance to switch from an petrol car to an electric battery powered one is causing a catastrophic change in the climate. Really?
E.g. You are white and male and inherently racist and sexists and the cause of injustice in the world. What?
Perhaps it isn’t and never has been about the reality of things but rather the narrative of the moment. If claims are consistent with a prevailing narrative they are taken at face value.
And the prevailing narrative of our times seems to be an anti-human one. Humans are a pest in the world and the fewer of them the better. What is terrifying is everyone now believes this with almost no exception, even people who are for the most part on “our” side of the major political issues.
The idea that there are just too many humans around is a dominant thought in our times. So no one needs too much persuading when a claim is made that a person, or a group of people or all of us as species is causing some form of harm or other.
This one is easily addressed: The answers is I don’t. Viruses may have invaded my body. If so, this happened without me noticing or being able to control it and certainly without my consent. Assuming this has happened, viruses may also be shed from my body in a variety of ways, again without your or me knowing this, without me being able to control it and without my consent. That’s a phenomenon which is as naturally occuring on this world as rain or sunshine and in all three cases, if the possibility bothers you, it’s up to you to take whatever precautions you deem suitable.
Your reluctance to switch from an petrol car to an electric battery powered one is causing a catastrophic change in the climate.
There are 1142 coal fired power plants in China and even one of them dwarves the CO₂ emissions from my car to such a degree that they can rightly be regarded as non-existant.
You are white and male and inherently racist and sexists and the cause of injustice in the world.
I’m certainly not responsible your desire to employ injust broad-brush generalizations of this kind. Hence, other sources of injustice must obviously exist. People like you, for instance.
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Addressing this passive-aggressive whining is obviously of limited usefulness when it’s just being employed as cover for peope with power acting in self-serving ways but it’s still better than just accepting this as fate.
I didn’t. I’ve now tried to find one but couldn’t. But I was writing about something different, anyway, namely, nonsense-definitions of causing harm which rose to popularity during/ because of COVID.
Opinions are like arseholes — everybody has one would generally come to mind here. And nowadays, everybody with an opinion also has a statistic which ‘proves’ that his opinion is correct.
Actually I am sick and fed up of all the Bozo analysis. He was proven via the Scamdemic to be utterly useless, lazy and dishonest – I know, I’m being generous – and in reality a traitor so why do we keep bringing him back to the front page on the basis of ill-placed what iffery?
Boris Johnstone is a sick joke and one I am tired of hearing about.
The quote in the article also exposes him as the evil schemer he actually is, because he not only accepted exhale as definition of [intentionally] trying to cause harm but is still defending it here: I had to introduce totalitarian rule (sort-of, things were much worse in Germany) because I had to remain be true to my liberal principles!
Yes I think it’s wishful thinking. If you stop believing in the Conservative Party as a party of the right then there’s not much left – it’s pretty bleak.
Excellent and illuminating.
But even then I don’t think ‘Boris’ would have done things differently.
He is in truth first and foremost a man without principles, incl. libertarian ones, and a narcissist.
He primarily wants to be loved by as many people as possible and his fellow chattering class members, which means he will always cave in to polls and spending OPM.
A fair-weather libertarian at best.
You’re still treating him too generously. De Pfeffel likely doesn’t give a hoot if people like him unless that turns out to his private benefit, ie, being liked by people is – to him – just one way to make them do what he wants them to do.
Good article. Very happy to read the truth about Mill and his ilk. Mill neither understood nor cared much about real freedom. He was a proponent of scientism, or rule through ‘the science’ by those deemed superior and ‘rational’.
thelightcavalry
1 year ago
Fun, but wrong. Boris fucked up because he’s a coward. I prefer Mike Tyson’s trainer to Oxbridge: ‘The coward and the hero feel the same. It’s what they do that makes them different.’ Boris knew what was right and did what was wrong.
Phil Warner
1 year ago
What has King Lear got to do with events of recent times. The fools, the evil, the conniving all die. Whilst those with a true heart and an honourable nature Edgar, Kent and Albany live, and it’s no Hollywood production.
RTSC
1 year ago
This “harm” argument might make sense …. if it wasn’t for the very clear and very obvious FACT that the lockdowns were inevitably going to harm a very large number of people.
And even IF the Tyrants could make an argument that they didn’t know how appalling the harms to the whole population would be when they imposed the first lockdown, by the time we got to Summer 2020 they most certainly did.
Yet they carried on for another 18 months.
So I’m not buying it. There was a clear Agenda in operation and “don’t kill granny” had nothing to do with it.
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Very good. Gets to the heart of the matter, not least in questioning the wisdom of the attempt by assorted intellectuals over the last few centuries to substitute an ersatz ‘Religion of Humanity’ for the real thing.
I thought Boris’s middle name was piffle.
The harm principle is worthless without a definition of harm. If people are free to define cause harm as exhale (as they did), all of human live becomes subject to legitimate execution of power and that’s certainly not what Mill meant.
But that is exactly where we are now. There seems to be no burden of proof when it comes to claims of harm. At least not in the political or social sphere. Harm is whatever one claims it to be.
Why we just take every claim of harm being inflicted at face value is something that I don’t completely understand.
E.g. You are breathing the virus out and infecting me. Evidence? Proof? Even if you stand back a bit? Nothing, the claim is accepted without question.
E.g. Your reluctance to switch from an petrol car to an electric battery powered one is causing a catastrophic change in the climate. Really?
E.g. You are white and male and inherently racist and sexists and the cause of injustice in the world. What?
Perhaps it isn’t and never has been about the reality of things but rather the narrative of the moment. If claims are consistent with a prevailing narrative they are taken at face value.
And the prevailing narrative of our times seems to be an anti-human one. Humans are a pest in the world and the fewer of them the better. What is terrifying is everyone now believes this with almost no exception, even people who are for the most part on “our” side of the major political issues.
The idea that there are just too many humans around is a dominant thought in our times. So no one needs too much persuading when a claim is made that a person, or a group of people or all of us as species is causing some form of harm or other.
You are breathing the virus out and infecting me.
This one is easily addressed: The answers is I don’t. Viruses may have invaded my body. If so, this happened without me noticing or being able to control it and certainly without my consent. Assuming this has happened, viruses may also be shed from my body in a variety of ways, again without your or me knowing this, without me being able to control it and without my consent. That’s a phenomenon which is as naturally occuring on this world as rain or sunshine and in all three cases, if the possibility bothers you, it’s up to you to take whatever precautions you deem suitable.
Your reluctance to switch from an petrol car to an electric battery powered one is causing a catastrophic change in the climate.
There are 1142 coal fired power plants in China and even one of them dwarves the CO₂ emissions from my car to such a degree that they can rightly be regarded as non-existant.
You are white and male and inherently racist and sexists and the cause of injustice in the world.
I’m certainly not responsible your desire to employ injust broad-brush generalizations of this kind. Hence, other sources of injustice must obviously exist. People like you, for instance.
—
Addressing this passive-aggressive whining is obviously of limited usefulness when it’s just being employed as cover for peope with power acting in self-serving ways but it’s still better than just accepting this as fate.
My point is that it’s worse than people of power using these anti human accusations as devices of manipulation.
These accusations of “abuse” are landing on fertile ground of a population that believes humans are a pest.
You did read the article yesterday that us humans breathing had a significant detrimental effect on CO2 levels and climate….
I didn’t. I’ve now tried to find one but couldn’t. But I was writing about something different, anyway, namely, nonsense-definitions of causing harm which rose to popularity during/ because of COVID.
Opinions are like arseholes — everybody has one would generally come to mind here. And nowadays, everybody with an opinion also has a statistic which ‘proves’ that his opinion is correct.
Boris is a stage name designed to make him seem like everyone’s mate. He’s not my mate.
Egregious as he was and is, he is but a tiny part of a global problem.
Actually I am sick and fed up of all the Bozo analysis. He was proven via the Scamdemic to be utterly useless, lazy and dishonest – I know, I’m being generous – and in reality a traitor so why do we keep bringing him back to the front page on the basis of ill-placed what iffery?
Boris Johnstone is a sick joke and one I am tired of hearing about.
100%
I couldn’t agree more.
Shysters and conmen have long been an object of fascination.
Not for me though. All conmen do is remind me how gullible people are. And I have zero admiration for people who exploit the weakness of others.
The quote in the article also exposes him as the evil schemer he actually is, because he not only accepted exhale as definition of [intentionally] trying to cause harm but is still defending it here: I had to introduce totalitarian rule (sort-of, things were much worse in Germany) because I had to remain be true to my liberal principles!
The DS seems to be able to see the inherent mendacity in many things but somehow not in Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party more generally.
One senses a certain desperation to find something to redeem them.
Yes I think it’s wishful thinking. If you stop believing in the Conservative Party as a party of the right then there’s not much left – it’s pretty bleak.
Totally agree
Excellent and illuminating.
But even then I don’t think ‘Boris’ would have done things differently.
He is in truth first and foremost a man without principles, incl. libertarian ones, and a narcissist.
He primarily wants to be loved by as many people as possible and his fellow chattering class members, which means he will always cave in to polls and spending OPM.
A fair-weather libertarian at best.
You’re still treating him too generously. De Pfeffel likely doesn’t give a hoot if people like him unless that turns out to his private benefit, ie, being liked by people is – to him – just one way to make them do what he wants them to do.
Good article. Very happy to read the truth about Mill and his ilk. Mill neither understood nor cared much about real freedom. He was a proponent of scientism, or rule through ‘the science’ by those deemed superior and ‘rational’.
Fun, but wrong. Boris fucked up because he’s a coward. I prefer Mike Tyson’s trainer to Oxbridge: ‘The coward and the hero feel the same. It’s what they do that makes them different.’ Boris knew what was right and did what was wrong.
What has King Lear got to do with events of recent times. The fools, the evil, the conniving all die. Whilst those with a true heart and an honourable nature Edgar, Kent and Albany live, and it’s no Hollywood production.
This “harm” argument might make sense …. if it wasn’t for the very clear and very obvious FACT that the lockdowns were inevitably going to harm a very large number of people.
And even IF the Tyrants could make an argument that they didn’t know how appalling the harms to the whole population would be when they imposed the first lockdown, by the time we got to Summer 2020 they most certainly did.
Yet they carried on for another 18 months.
So I’m not buying it. There was a clear Agenda in operation and “don’t kill granny” had nothing to do with it.