On the site of the famous Agincourt battle, a new battle is heating up. One with windmills and History: it looks like the city of Agincourt is considering putting four large wind mills next to the terrain where the famous battle was fought. It is somehow an interesting fight. On the one hand, the city wants to be making money out of the wind turbines, on the other hand, they risk having less tourists thereby reducing tourist revenues. Since it was a British win, I can see how it has not been converted to a one of these fashionable history parks. The article says that up to 85,000 tourists come every year while each wind turbine would bring 5000 euros per month. The mayor of the city also says that he would rather see wind turbine construction than an increase the capacity of the nearby nuclear power plant. The trade-off seems pretty straightforward, the elected officials want to take the risk of a potentially drop-off in tourists in exchange of 20,000 euros per month while making the case that doing so will prevent a nuclear power plant from being built. Since a nuclear power plant produces about 1,400 MW-hr whereas a wind turbine produce only about 5 KW-hr or 0.005 MW or 1/280,000 of a nuclear power plant output, to the untrained eye, it really looks like it is really just a question of money... but that's just me.
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