I'm uite the same on land ones. I admire the ingenuity of the view. Seeing wind turbines and solar farms on the landscape is nice; cool, even.

People that don't like them, I just don't know why. Maybe they had a traumatic interaction with a desk fan as a kid.

I agree! They seem graceful and elegant.

Relevant xkcd

I dont mind the ones near me so much during the day, but at night, the blinking red lights are kind of imposing. Sitting on the beach kind of feels like some massive ship or skyscraper is going to crash into you.

Rather than that, it's a veiled NIMBY argument. They don't care that nuclear, gas or coal power plants look uglier - they would if they would stand in their backyard.

They similarily don't really care about the optics of wind turbines, but they are afraid of javing them in their backyard, which is much more likely than a power plant if you don't live near a river

When I bought my house one of the things that I was warned about was that they were going to make the nearby wind farm larger. Some of the locals got up in arms about them building a new wind farm until they pointed out that they are just enlarging the current wind farm.

None of the residents could tell me where the current wind farm was, because you literally cannot see it, it's behind a hill. If they hadn't told anyone they were enlarging it I don't think anyone would have noticed. Even if you go around the hill so you can actually see it, it just blends into the background. I do wonder why they don't just paint them blue though.

Fuck you and your sour grapes tulips, Dutchman!

Signed,

A jealous Estonian

Man, I miss summer.

Isn't even the bird thing wildly overstated?

They probably "destroy family" because the children of the idiot boomers that put the sign up no longer speak to them over politics

This isn't a discussion of emissions, it's a discussion of aesthetics.

That would be an electrifying adventure for them

The towers are about 15-30 feet across at the base (depending on the model) and made of steel. That's well into angle grinder territory. No one's felling turbines like trees any time soon.