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I think wind farms on sea look really cool, especially if the turbines are huge. It gives some majestic feelings
by whazor 2mo ago
I think wind farms on sea look really cool, especially if the turbines are huge. It gives some majestic feelings
- BoxOfRain 2mo agoI'm not a huge fan of their aesthetic in its own right, but it beats the aesthetic of fossil fuel infrastructure any day in my view.
- rayiner 2mo agoI like wind farms, but I think it's fair to observe that they're often built in nice places, whereas fossil fuel infrastructure is built in places you'd never go to voluntarily.
- stevesimmons 2mo agoLots of fossil fuel infrastructure was built in formerly nice places that now you'd never go to voluntarily...
- acdha 2mo agoDrive around Southern California and you’ll see everything from oil derricks to refineries in places which would otherwise be full of housing if they weren’t so polluting.
- ctkhn 2mo agoSome of them are right next to housing. Huntington beach has wells adjoining homes near the beach. Look up the prices of the houses if you want to really go crazy
- ben_w 2mo ago> whereas fossil fuel infrastructure is built in places you'd never go to voluntarily. IMO that's the consequence, not the cause, of the infrastructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine Or sometimes the consequence of the closure of that infrastructure with no transitional plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil The latter is absolutely worth caring about even for the greenest of green energy. Even just PV on rooftops, when a town becomes a ghost town.
- rsynnott 2mo agoAh, sometimes it can look quite nice, or at least striking. Though usually after end of life. The Tate Modern in London is an old power station, and a disused oil power plant in Dublin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poolbeg_Generating_Station#Poolbeg_chimneys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poolbeg_Generating_Station#Poo...) has become sufficiently iconic that its operator was refused permission to demolish its chimneys; they're now protected structures.
- BoxOfRain 2mo agoThat's fair actually! To undermine my own point further, Battersea Power Station in London is iconic. In particular the control rooms were very well-styled with lots of art deco ornamentation, anyone who's listened to Quark, Strangeness and Charm by Hawkwind will have seen it as it's the source of the album art. To be honest I think the idea that ornament in general is bad did a lot of visual damage to the world.
- dguest 2mo agoA huge coal power plant belching smoke probably looked pretty cool, maybe even majestic, the first time you saw London back in the Victorian Era. That's before the entire city became saturated in soot, you developed respiratory problems, and you'd seen the same stinky monstrosity every day for most of your short difficult life.
- mafuy 2mo agoThat's the problem. It diminishes His Majesty Trump I.
- specialist 2mo agoIt's mesmerizing. Akin to dance. I love it.