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They are gigantic, they necessarily tower over everything (otherwise they wouldn't work), but once you take your gaze off the gigantic gray rotating blades agai

• pgeorgi 11y ago
  They're large, of course. It's simply a matter of visual expectations: There's this flat land, with tiny houses, some forests surround it. Everything is laid out horizontally more than vertically. Then these vertical spikes appear. In such an environment windmills can seem frightening at first and feel like they're at least(!) 500 meters high since there's no frame of reference to them in the vertical. At some point they're simply large (still larger than everything else, but church towers, the former larger-than-everything structures, aren't frightening either - because people are used to them).
  • wobbleblob 11y ago
    Are you referring to Northern Germany? It has been a long time since the Netherlands looked like that. It's flat, but the endless "vinex wijken" of identical tiny "rijtjeshuizen" are everywhere. Instead of forests, there are geometric rows of identical Populus × canadensis clones. At the very least I think the windmills fit right in, in many cases I find it makes the landscape look nicer, with an added vertical element and some movement. Vastly nicer looking than a coal plant.