I remember reading somewhere (probably my high school textbook) that one of the reasons people don’t like wind power being built is they cause visual pollution.
In my opinion, I think it would be pretty cool to just look out my window and see a giant windmill there, the opposite of visual pollution.
They look better than pump jacks and oil derricks.
Let alone power plants billowing steam and smoke
And they don’t damage the environment as much as a hydro dam
And nowhere as ugly as giant farms of solar
Honestly its probably the BEST looking power source
Wind needs energy storage but it generates a ton of electricity 👍⚡
Ah pump jacks are satisfying to watch too. And I mean derricks are temporary. But I’ve always liked windmills.
Gray smoke is a worse type of visual pollution imo
Yeah and blurry vision is pretty shit.
Its fossil fuel lobby propaganda.
I think they’re pretty tbh. There’s a huge stretch of them in a field I drive through sometimes, and at night I like to just stop for a second and watch 95% of them all flash their light on top in sync across an impressive distance.
And sometimes there’s one or two flashing out of sync in a weird rhythm and I assume it’s like an error code which I think is pretty interesting
I love seeing them on the horizon. I genuinely get excited to see them.
It causes visual pollution like a politician telling the truth too much.
It’s a load of bullshit
I think they’re quite attractive
The strobe effect is a thing but it really doesn’t impact a lot of people since you know windmills are usually not by apartment buildings. Being very kind to that point of view seeing things that are new can put you out of sorts.
Personally I think they look cool, that doesn’t mean I can’t see other POVs. Still, people will adapt when they get more common and frankly I am not into NIMBY anyway.
Yeah you obviously shouldn’t build them even close to buildings for many reasons
They turn at 20 rpm, so a blade every second, hardly a strobe effect.
I think they look really cool. I can’t get the rage about a friggin’ giant electricity producing machine but they’re fine with billboards everywhere.
Once The Man figures out that windmills would make good persistence-of-vision displays to play adverts on, I’m going to start burning them down.
They weren’t there was a big campaign against them in the 60s. Which led to the Highway Beautification Act.
Better than normal pollution though or visual pollution from smoke and smog. It’s a tradeoff and a good one in my mind.
It’s a made up word for fossil-fuel execs.
I would anytime put up a wind turbine in my yard and enjoy the free energy then complain about how it looks like.
In fact I am planning to power my side building/garage, utility rooms, freezer box and yard lights (basically everything except my house) by wind power. Domestic wind turbines are super cool and you can even make one yourself or just get a smaller one with super easy installation.
They look better than smoke stacks
And in all honesty they remind me of like a leisurely creek or small waterfall in that they kinda just keep going on in a pleasant consistent kind of way ya know?
Basically what I’m saying is that they’re pretty IMO
This complaint about wind power has always come across as the kind of thing people say because they heard somebody else say it. imo, it’s just stupid people who desperately want to have an opinion on the topic weighing in with the only piece of criticism they’ve overhead some Sky News host parrot at some point in the past, and because that host had authority on the matter in their minds, it gives them some kind of false confidence to then go forward and proclaim the visual pollution argument, as if it has any real basis in anything.
Like comic sans.
Hmm…Ehhhh I can see it. It’s usually out in nature where people might want to just see nature… but I also usually see it in places where people aren’t going sight seeing as much. It’s fields. Which are nice. Those are nice to see. But it’s not the thing people are seeing in the towns as much. But if they were, I don’t see how it could really ruin the view of a neighborhood.
If it was something like in campgrounds, going out to the lake and it’s just right there in front of the view of the mountains, right off to the side of hiking trails, I would hate it. But over all I don’t see it as that huge of a deal. They tend to find the best places for it with causing the least amount of trouble for others.
