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.
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visual pollution = advertisements and billboards everywhere
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A little bit, in the same way that any man made structure does. But they’re quite peaceful to look at and compared to a nuclear or coal plant they’re way better to look at.
I wouldn’t like to see them in an area of outstanding beauty, but I’m cool with them anywhere else.
Slight nitpick: they’re wind turbines, not windmills. Windmills are used to grind things down, like wheat into flour.
Nah, they are cool.
No, I like them. They bring some variety to landscapes. Many people here hate them though.
I’ve never seen a wind turbine in person but I’d imagine no more than buildings and a lot less than most other power sources.
I live in the middle of a sprawling wind farm. Every direction I turn, I can see wind turbines looking ominously over my neighbor’s houses. It’s awesome, and way more interesting than the hundreds of square miles of corn fields they otherwise occupy.
Yeah they do. I live somewhere where they are adding a lot to the bluffs in the area it is not as pretty as it was before. But so does the giant ass strip mine nearby. It is just that the mine has been here longer than most of the people so they think of it as part of the landscape. Instead of the giant ass hole in the ground full of toxic water that it is.
They look better than pump jacks and oil derricks.
Let alone power plants billowing steam and smoke
And they don’t damage the environment as much as a hydro dam
And nowhere as ugly as giant farms of solar
Honestly its probably the BEST looking power source
Wind needs energy storage but it generates a ton of electricity 👍⚡
Ah pump jacks are satisfying to watch too. And I mean derricks are temporary. But I’ve always liked windmills.
This complaint about wind power has always come across as the kind of thing people say because they heard somebody else say it. imo, it’s just stupid people who desperately want to have an opinion on the topic weighing in with the only piece of criticism they’ve overhead some Sky News host parrot at some point in the past, and because that host had authority on the matter in their minds, it gives them some kind of false confidence to then go forward and proclaim the visual pollution argument, as if it has any real basis in anything.
I have actually heard the “original person” complaining about this… but the original person is also the kind of person who wants a picture-perfect ocean view every single day. Wind turbines? Visual pollution. Ships passing by? Visual pollution. Their neighbor has too many holiday decorations up? Visual pollution.
They just genuinely expect the rest of civilization around them to comply to their demands for a fantasy-perfect oceanside existence.
Sounds like my dad. We don’t talk anymore. Remember his irrational anger to the idea that other people were using HIS highway when he was driving on it. Also he had a war against a neighbor who sublet to his cousin “cause it is zoned for single family and a cousin is a different family”. Just fucking admit you don’t want a brown family on your block, I would honestly respect honest bigotry more.
At least they’re fair about it 🤷♂️
Like comic sans.
I would much rather look at wind turbines than smog.
I think they look really cool. I can’t get the rage about a friggin’ giant electricity producing machine but they’re fine with billboards everywhere.
Once The Man figures out that windmills would make good persistence-of-vision displays to play adverts on, I’m going to start burning them down.
They weren’t there was a big campaign against them in the 60s. Which led to the Highway Beautification Act.
Windmills look so much better than rural Indiana
Would suggest a driving trip on I65 just north of Lafayette Indiana…
It is a flat boring patch of rural farm land just like the rest of rural indiana, but they added hundreds of wind turbines to the fields that stretch as far as the eye can see. It is truly a marvel to look at…
In essence, i drive through rural indiana every so often… i can definitively confirm that the section with windmills is far more interesting looking than the rest.
Yeah I drove from central ohio to Chicago once. The thing that struck me most was how little renewables ohio had. The wind farms were exactly what rural America needed to look fine.
But yeah also I advise against driving through rural Indiana because you still have to be there to do it
Windmills look pretty nice. I’ve only ever seen the “visual pollution” argument made by rich, entitled Karens and Fox News drones.
There are windmills all over the place here and I love seeing them. To me this is what the future should look like. Poeple have used windmills for centuries, why stop now?
Windmills are awesome. While traveling in Europe, I saw a massive wind farm off the coast of Sweden, cool as hell. Then I took a hike, and ended up at the base of one of these giant behemoths! Still cool.
The only visual pollution that irritates me is advertisements and billboards. I hate them passionately.
