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.
“Visual pollution” is a bullshit term that rich people came up with to keep them from being built near their vacation resorts. It means “ugly”
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
I find them comforting in a reassuring, kinda awe inspiring way. Like, they’re a visual sign of at least trying to address climate change, and there’s something about having a giant, obviously artificial moving structure towering over the landscape that just gives me a sense of thrill and wonder that we are capable of building that. Those things are pretty massive if you get anywhere close to one, after all.
I think it looks good, personally. Definitively less ugly than radio towers or pylons.
They look fine to me. Same as windmills creating a certain aesthetic in the places they are built.
It’s much better than having a giant power plant blocking the view of the landscape.
No
No, I like the rhythmic visual quality. And on a conscious level they make me feel happy about clean electricity. I see windmills every single day and they do not get old for me.
not at all, on the contrary, they are pretty impressive and I love how they look.
It’s difficult to consider them pollution even if we were to accept the subjective opinion on displeasing aesthetics.
The pollution we’re all concerned about tends to be:
- Physically harmful
- Difficult to confine/localize/avoid/reverse
- An externality the economy doesn’t sufficiently account for
- A burden that’s unevenly/unfairly distributed across society
Even light pollution, which is arguably barely physically harmful, has all of the remaining qualities (or nearly) for sure.
If these qualities even apply wind generators at all, they do so very weakly. They can be moved/unbuilt, the “free market” is pricing them cheaper by the day, and if you really don’t like looking at them, it’s not impractical to avoid them.
Personally I like the look of windmills🤗
Like with anything, too much of it will look/taste/smell/sound bad.
Is that a reason in and of itself to not build wind power plants? No.
Personally I find wind power plants to look cool, a bit sci-fi and futuristic.
The argument that they are ugly is dumb, using a term like “visual pollution” is just a way to try and make a subjective oppinion sound like objective fact.
What, you don’t find them strangely unnerving?
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/alternative_energy_revolution.jpg
Dude, the windows in my apartment just look at the wall of another apartment. I would much rather see a god damn wind turbine.
Dude. They’re so fucking cool. I wish I had a wind turbine in my backyard or something. A feat of engineering I tell you.
I love looking at hill ranges covered in wind turbines. The swiss disagree though.
