I find both solar panels and wind turbines to be quite beautiful and aesthetic when done at least half well. However turbines do have its issues with noise and shadows so I definitely wouldn't want one close by.

I'm shocked people are fine with clean windmills and solar panels near their home and not dirty coal plants. If anything seeing clean energy just makes you think of a rich neighborhood just like a Tesla would.

Solar Plants were always the most expensive option in Sim City. Coal was the cheapest. It's been engrained in us since our childhood.

People in the USA* pretty big detail to leave out of the title, this isn't a global study.

I'm not from there but I wouldn't have any problem with such installations as long as they're done tastefully, so as to not affect the beauty of the land any more than what's essential. Renewables are the way forward after all!

HOAs still place restrictions unfortunately. Perhaps not an outright ban in most places, but limited installations and possibly in not the best place on the house for solar production.

This means little. People always say they are okay with it, in the abstract. Then when it's time to get specific and build an actual wind or solar farm near them, suddenly it's a big nuisance, harmful to the local ecology, etc.

See there's something interesting in this and every time an article like this comes up it always makes me think about this.

There is a wind farm going to be constructed near where I live, they send out a bunch of letters telling everybody that we were going to build the wind farm and then that was it. There's been no public consultation if you had an objection you could email them but I'm not sure what that would do. Perhaps they would hold a consultation if anybody had objected, but nobody has.

This is the way to do it, public consultations are ridiculous, they just allow NIMBY idiots the opportunity to mess things up for everyone else. If it's got the proper permits, and the proper environmental investigations have already been conducted, why is it any business of the locals, it's not like it's going to cause more traffic.

Interesting. In my country nobody wants to live next to windmills (I'm from the Netherlands). The sound and even the constant shadows falling over your house is said to be causing mental health issues.

Mind you, The Netherlands is a very densly populated country.

I'd say about 30% has solar on their roof though.

E: here's a research that had been done by our government: It seems mostly in English, for those that want to read it.

https://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/2020-0150.pdf

Conclusion seems to be that it cannot be said for certain that the sound of windmills are the sole reason for sleeplessness and mental health problems.

I love driving by a wind farm. The wind turbines make me feel really peaceful.

Not sure if I wanna live next to a wind farm, but solar is 100% okay

All the Hicks out here in upstate NY defeated two of them.. one was a wind turbine, the other was a grid battery facility.. Which they justified by saying it would start a fire.. These were Lithium iron phosphate..

Wouldn't want a solar farm anywhere I wouldn't want a giant warehouse either. You probably wouldn't put a warehouse in the middle of residential neighborhood anyways so I don't think that's an issue. Plenty of places to put those where people don't need to be inconvenienced by them.

Windmills on the other hand I think are cool as fuck. I've never actually stood right next to one but people say they're a bit noisy, so while I might not want one on my yard I sure wouldn't mind seeing them from the window.

That's kind of moot for wind though, since most residential neighbourhoods are apparently pretty shit for that. Something to do with the wind being more turbulent because of all the buildings.

Wind power is best at sea, or maybe in the open countryside (where it's ugly, but no worse than the massive coal power station I've been able to see since I was born).

Solar? Well some of us lucky enough to live in the right places, or have a roof slanting in the right direction already have that. (Not sure why we're still building houses facing all sorts of directions with a traditional pointed roof, when we can face them all the same way with a larger, south/north facing section for optimal solar panel placement)

I doubt a solar farm would bother that many people, they're low to the ground and have no moving parts. Yeah, ugly I guess, but so are farmer's fields.