EcoWorldly Goes to a Wind Farm in South Korea
Hope you enjoy! I certainly had a lot of fun making this video.
Afterwards, if you like, you can read more about South Korea’s renewable energy future here.
Hope you enjoy! I certainly had a lot of fun making this video.
Afterwards, if you like, you can read more about South Korea’s renewable energy future here.
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Nicely done, Gavin… I really enjoyed this!
Brilliant! I think windmills are such elegant structurs - great to get such a view.
Gavin,
Good show. I like the ‘Moment of Zen’, nice touch. The land-use planning part of my intellect wants to know more about the land you were on. Was it private or public? Do you know? Did you have to ask anyone for permission to be on their land?
I’m just curious…
Thanks all. As for Tim’s question about the land, I’m 99% sure that it’s public land. I saw some touristic maps positioned along the road with hiking trails all in and around the wind farm.
Also, I think that there are tours that go up there in the Spring and Summer. The area’s famous around here for a sheep farm that I think Hyundai (of course) owns. I think it’s a day-trip idea to go visit the sheep and hike through the windmills, but I can’t be sure until Spring.
I did meet one really nice guy near the top, exchanged friendly waves with another, and saw a group of hikers coming down from the hill. Haha… Two of the little kids in the group decided it would be fun to walk across the snowed-over creek. I saw them from the top of the bridge overhead when the one farthest from the bank was already up to his knees in snow and creek water, having of course fallen through.
Oh, one more thing… I mention that you can only hear them from about 500 feet away. Thinking back on it now, the number might have been more like 200.
What a lovely, lovely idea Gavin. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Not only did we hear you on the podcast, we now have you as TV presenter. A future in the media is now secure.
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