People ‘don’t know’ what wind turbines are like

Broadcaster and wordsmith Kel Richards says people “don’t know” what actual wind turbines are like. Tasmanian windfarms recently got approval to run all year long, prompting outcry from communities of the areas the farms have been built on. “The people who live in the inner suburbs, who vote teal, they have no idea what’s going on, because they don’t know what these wind turbines are like,” he told Sky News host James Macpherson. “They’ve taken the occasional trip in the country, and they’ve seen one of those really nice old fashioned southern cross windmills – you know, the nice little ones, that have been there for 80-90 years, they’re quite quaint. “But these things are nothing like that, these are humongous – one blade is the length of a semitrailer, 260 feet, 80 meters, these things are absolutely massive.”