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Finally. And yes it will be a good answer to NIMBYsts: "if you don't like to see windmills on the horizon, next year they will be standing right in the middle o
by anovikov 4y ago
Finally. And yes it will be a good answer to NIMBYsts: "if you don't like to see windmills on the horizon, next year they will be standing right in the middle of your village".
- Ekaros 4y agoI hope they start to place these in downtown. There is plenty of parks and green areas where you could easily fit a few. Maybe top of buildings too. After all we all must make small sacrifices for green energy right?
- mrtksn 4y agoIn London, there's this skyscraper with wind turbines on the top[0]. It was supposed to generate some of its energy from these, however due to the vibrations and noise it creates they were turned off. [0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata_SE1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata_SE1
- throwaway894345 4y agoClimate justice demands no less.
- blisterpeanuts 4y agoWind turbines are rather noisy and would become an irritation to people living or working nearby. I would think there are limits to how much people should sacrifice for the sake of clean energy production.
- Ekaros 4y agoShouldn't the ones doing that sacrifice be the primary users of the energy? That is people living in cities? It should not be forced to those on country side.
- caoilte 4y agoPeople in the countryside are also primary users of the energy. And they're lifestyle is only made possible by people living in cities. Maybe we could compromise and put them on golf courses?
- 7952 4y agoIt probably isn't worth it as rural sites will just be cheaper and easier. Also, there is more of a safety risk when people can go underneath a turbine. In the unlikely event that it topples over it count hurt people. There is also a risk of ice falling off the blades.
- TonyTrapp 4y agoWhat I'd really like to yell at those people: "if you don't like to see windmills on the horizon, how about a coal mine instead?" - maybe a windmill is the lesser evil after all...
- laputan_machine 4y agoWhat is even more bizarre to me, is that: 1. Wind turbines look really slick in my opinion 2. These people don't complain about power transmission pylons, which are uglier to look at!
- throwaway894345 4y agoIt took me a bit to come around to windmills, but I got used to them. It would be pretty tragic if the landscape was homogeneously windmills though (of course, if that's the only way to stave off climate change, so be it).
- martin_a 4y agoLook here, this is what coal has brought us: 50.90272214735486, 6.530962108759532 Lovely. Would take loooooots of windmills instead.
- martinald 4y agoIt's clearly not th e only solution though, nuclear can and is providing that.
- epistasis 4y agoIt did in the past, and could in the far future, but nuclear is incredibly expensive, and the construction logistics are so difficult and slow that it is not a feasible solution for the energy interchange. Perhaps in 2060 or 2070, we could build enough. Our ability to manufacture has so outpaced our ability to construct that nuclear doesn't really fit modern economies very well.
- mountainb 4y ago
- SubiculumCode 4y ago