She said David Cameron was a "guy who put a wind turbine on his house and now backs a moratorium on wind and a guy who was hugging a husky but now talks about 'cutting the green crap'".
All electricity comes from a hydro turbine and solar panels, and the yoga shala has underfloor heating.
The sight of a windfarm or a single turbine makes my heart lift.
But beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and my appraisal of the Longlands Lane turbine on a warm spring evening is not likely to echo that of locals who once knew and loved the empty sky it now fills.
From the start, the turbine plans were not popular, she says: "I don't think many people in the village wanted it.
Minesto has been testing the kite turbine system in Strangford Loch in Northern Ireland.
As Putin goes to Budapest for what has become a rare experience – being welcomed by a friendly EU government – the turbine engineer in Paks is aware of the contradiction, but is not bothered by it.
Coming off the early shift at Hungary's sole nuclear power station, on the Danube south of Budapest, Jozsef, a 30-year-old turbine engineer, is grateful to have a relatively secure job that pays considerably more than the national average.
We complain about politicians spinning, rather than recognizing that this is exactly what we want a weathervane — or hey, a wind turbine — to do, or recognizing that it's up to us to be that wind.
His ward, he says, is inappropriate for turbine construction.
This is, after all, the first year of the new turbine, and as yet they are perhaps still sizing it up.
