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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Have you ever spent any time in or close to a large wind farm? Honestly, it's relaxing if you haven't been told to be mad about them existing- they're quiet, sustainable, and once they're built the cost of each new unit of energy they deliver doesn't come with the unit cost and environmental cost of acquiring and burning yet more fuel-- so in that sense, the marginal cost of each new bit of power from them really does approach zero.

Of course, this (that the resulting energy is so cheap) is why the coal/oil/gas folks are mad- they know they won't be able to compete once a grid with sufficient edge-caching/power storage is built out

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they're beautiful. A sign of social and technological progress, hope for the future, human well-being and ingenuity.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

specifically this. also, if youre close, theyre a good marker for direction.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 87 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Offshore turbine farms are beautiful imo, very real yet alien-feeling

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Cue montage of anime/visual novels that have the pretty protagonists relaxing on a hill with 5 wind turbines in the background behind them.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm uite the same on land ones. I admire the ingenuity of the view. Seeing wind turbines and solar farms on the landscape is nice; cool, even.

People that don't like them, I just don't know why. Maybe they had a traumatic interaction with a desk fan as a kid.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The sentiment against renewable energy is about as rational as the sentiment against vaccines. Yet here we are.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Honestly I think that any community that objects to wind farms or solar panels just on irrational bases like that should get an oil derek built in the centre of town, even if it's just for show. Just to make the point.

A lot of it is NIMBYism, it's not that they don't want wind farms it's that they don't want wind farms here. Because they think that if you don't build a wind farm in their community you'll also not build a cold burning power station in their community. Often this is correct because what is a good location for wind farm is a bad location for a power station.

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you've hit on something there with your comment. They are sorta alien and a little weird... Everything that terrifies people that think in absolutes and orthodoxies and their puppeteers know this and have been playing them for absolute fools.

The irony is, that their blindness to their manipulators doesn't make them immune to it; they're just a s fucked as everyone else except they're cheering for it.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

They're like a perfect setting for a liminal space game, endless water all around and a bunch of menacing, all-white and smooth man-made structures where our monkey brains don't expect them

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I agree! They seem graceful and elegant.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The argument that they mess up landscapes was always made in bad faith. Grasping at straws.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Rather than that, it's a veiled NIMBY argument. They don't care that nuclear, gas or coal power plants look uglier - they would if they would stand in their backyard.

They similarily don't really care about the optics of wind turbines, but they are afraid of javing them in their backyard, which is much more likely than a power plant if you don't live near a river

[–] dejpivo@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's leave nuclear out of this, they look magnificent! In our area, the nuclear power plant is a photo point / trip destination. The surrounding nature is very healthy thanks to the strict regulations.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I remember passing a nuclear plant with cooling towers with my parents while traveling as a child, they pointed to the billowing steam coming out and said something about how the government is installing these plants to pump that radioactive gas into the air and "control" us.

I grew up, looked back at it, realized how dumb they were.... but also realized how common that level of ignorance and contradictory thinking actually is, particularly in the US.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

When I bought my house one of the things that I was warned about was that they were going to make the nearby wind farm larger. Some of the locals got up in arms about them building a new wind farm until they pointed out that they are just enlarging the current wind farm.

None of the residents could tell me where the current wind farm was, because you literally cannot see it, it's behind a hill. If they hadn't told anyone they were enlarging it I don't think anyone would have noticed. Even if you go around the hill so you can actually see it, it just blends into the background. I do wonder why they don't just paint them blue though.

[–] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Im guessing they want them to stand out for safety for pilots

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

Fuck you and your ~~sour grapes~~ tulips, Dutchman!

Signed,

A jealous Estonian

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Man, I miss summer.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

See, stuff like this is why we need photographers and photo journalists. They're not just documenting things, they're making a point. They're making art.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yesterday I had to go on a long drive. During that drive, I passed a yard in which someone had placed an obviously homemade billboard with the words "wind turbines destroy family, environment and quality of life."

I was flatly stunned to see it. I've heard that stuff about them killing birds but I've never heard they were otherwise contentious. In fact, everyone I know personally loves to go look at them given the opportunity.

[–] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Isn't even the bird thing wildly overstated?

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Speaking in German numbers:

Wind Energy kills arround 100.000 Birds a year. Lovely furrballs arround 20.000.000 (likely more) Glass plates like windshields, Windows etc. Arround 100.000.000 So yeah pretty minor.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The problem is its actual history.

Windmills did kill way too many birds

  • when they first built at Altamont pass, a natural constriction on a major migratory bird route
  • when they used open lattice towers, which present tons of tempting roosting spots
  • seems like at least one more major factor.

But this was in like the 1970s and they paid attention. Since then, wind turbines kill effectively zero birds, but it’s a huge problem when there’s an actual grain of truth that conservatives can grab onto and never let go

Edit: apparently still in production despite the poor site, but it looks like they cut bird fatalities in half and are looking at newer turbine designs to be safer. I guess the real lesson is don’t build in a mountain pass constricting a major Migratory bird route

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

That wind turbines kill birds is entirely sensationalized and overstated, absolutely.

Birds die from way more sources, like feral cats and flying into glass windows. Looks like someone else posted the source.

Things have gotten better since we noticed that birds recognize the turbine blades more easily if 1 of 3 of the blade are painted a non-white color.

Don't think we've really done anything with cats and windows to mitigate those issues

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

They probably "destroy family" because the children of the idiot boomers that put the sign up no longer speak to them over politics

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I enjoy seeing wind turbines along a landscape. Feel this this is some boomer shit

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

More wind turbines, less oil rigs on the horizon please.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago

And think of the birbs! Would someone please think of the bribs! They get confused by the propeller blades, and start migrating under water, where they get stuck in whale blowholes, causing problems for the shipping industry. Damn you, liberals!

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Cooling towers... So that's just water vapor... aka steam. Hence why it's white.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 54 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This isn't a discussion of emissions, it's a discussion of aesthetics.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

A few miles west of here are two wind generation fields, bout 60 miles in the other direction is a petroleum processor. The windmills are infinitely less of an eyesore.

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