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> make people not want them on their land or within eyesight I think that’s already the case. Better paint one black before someone has the idea to put ads on
by harha 4y ago
> make people not want them on their land or within eyesight
I think that’s already the case. Better paint one black before someone has the idea to put ads on them, the only thing that could make them even less pleasant to have around
- gknoy 4y agoTime to patent the idea of putting LEDs on them that light up at specific times in their rotation ...
- stainforth 4y agoDo they spin at a high enough rate for that? If not, you could have some kind of person or service that records elapsed footage and speeds it up, although I don't know how that itself could become a viable service.
- FL410 4y agoSerious question: what do you find so “unpleasant” about wind turbines?
- cocoto 4y agoI find them extremely unnatural and spoiling any natural landscape. I live in a beautiful place on earth with very little human activities (nearly no agriculture or buildings) and would never accept if some were installed there.
- TillE 4y agoI have never seen wind turbines installed in a "natural landscape", just in the middle of farmland.
- Leherenn 4y agoThey're often installed on ridges in mountainous/hilly areas.
- robotresearcher 4y agoAre you living off the power grid? If not, someone is seeing the infrastructure that powers your stuff. Even if you are, someone is seeing the infrastructure that makes your off-grid stuff.
- harha 4y agoEspecially in white it has the aesthetics of a stackable plastic garden chair, it just makes the surrounding nature look like a trashy trailer park back yard.
- denkmoon 4y ago> the only thing that could make them even less pleasant to have around Do you actually live near an installation of wind turbines? I don't, but I drive past many wind farms fairly regularly. I just can't wrap my head around this "they're so unpleasant" argument. They are aesthetically neutral at worst. Seems to be the outcome of existing bias that is entirely unrelated to the aesthetic "pleasantness" of the wind farms. Trotted out by politicians that have a vested interest in subsidising fossil fuels, whose extent of suffering through the unpleasantness of wind farms is looking down at them from 30,000 ft.
- zdragnar 4y agoI drove past some rather large fields of them- perhaps it was the angle of approach, but seeing many large rotating blades just over the horizon while driving actually made me a bit nauseous. Similar to seasickness / motion sickness, I suppose. I also have a strong dislike for the aesthetic, though my wife doesn't mind it much, so I guess it's a purely subjective take. Assuming that everyone who disagrees with you is blindly shilling for politicians and oil companies is a bit extreme, though.
- googlryas 4y agoIf you're within a few hundred meters of one, the noise as well as the constant flickering shadows at certain points of the day can be maddening - but, very, very few people live that close to a wind turbine.
- kbelder 4y agoOf course. The blades should have LEDs mounted on them, programmed to flicker so they can play short video ads. Maybe ads about how various ecologically-conscious companies sponsored construction of the turbines so you should buy their jeans with the leaf logo. Or their hydrating bottle, which comes in a tastefully uncolored recycled cardboard box.