Offshore turbine farms are beautiful imo, very real yet alien-feeling
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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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.
The sentiment against renewable energy is about as rational as the sentiment against vaccines. Yet here we are.
Honestly I think that any community that objects to wind farms or solar panels just on irrational bases like that should get an oil derek built in the centre of town, even if it's just for show. Just to make the point.
A lot of it is NIMBYism, it's not that they don't want wind farms it's that they don't want wind farms here. Because they think that if you don't build a wind farm in their community you'll also not build a cold burning power station in their community. Often this is correct because what is a good location for wind farm is a bad location for a power station.
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I agree so much. Harvesting free energy with clever engineering makes me happy. This is the world I want to live in. But some people are stubborn and sluggish. It's hard to not get impatient or angry.
I agree! They seem graceful and elegant.
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.
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The argument that they mess up landscapes was always made in bad faith. Grasping at straws.
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
Let's leave nuclear out of this, they look magnificent! In our area, the nuclear power plant is a photo point / trip destination. The surrounding nature is very healthy thanks to the strict regulations.
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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.
Im guessing they want them to stand out for safety for pilots
Fuck you and your ~~sour grapes~~ tulips, Dutchman!
Signed,
A jealous Estonian
Yesterday I had to go on a long drive. During that drive, I passed a yard in which someone had placed an obviously homemade billboard with the words "wind turbines destroy family, environment and quality of life."
I was flatly stunned to see it. I've heard that stuff about them killing birds but I've never heard they were otherwise contentious. In fact, everyone I know personally loves to go look at them given the opportunity.
Isn't even the bird thing wildly overstated?
Speaking in German numbers:
Wind Energy kills arround 100.000 Birds a year. Lovely furrballs arround 20.000.000 (likely more) Glass plates like windshields, Windows etc. Arround 100.000.000 So yeah pretty minor.
That wind turbines kill birds is entirely sensationalized and overstated, absolutely.
Birds die from way more sources, like feral cats and flying into glass windows. Looks like someone else posted the source.
Things have gotten better since we noticed that birds recognize the turbine blades more easily if 1 of 3 of the blade are painted a non-white color.
Don't think we've really done anything with cats and windows to mitigate those issues
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They probably "destroy family" because the children of the idiot boomers that put the sign up no longer speak to them over politics
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See, stuff like this is why we need photographers and photo journalists. They're not just documenting things, they're making a point. They're making art.
Cooling towers... So that's just water vapor... aka steam. Hence why it's white.
This isn't a discussion of emissions, it's a discussion of aesthetics.
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I enjoy seeing wind turbines along a landscape. Feel this this is some boomer shit
More wind turbines, less oil rigs on the horizon please.
And think of the birbs! Would someone please think of the bribs! They get confused by the propeller blades, and start migrating under water, where they get stuck in deep sea vents, causing blockages for ocean currents and costing the shipping industry billions. Damn you, liberals!
A few miles west of here are two wind generation fields, bout 60 miles in the other direction is a petroleum processor. The windmills are infinitely less of an eyesore.
I think they're beautiful. A sign of social and technological progress, hope for the future, human well-being and ingenuity.
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Please don't tell MAGAs that wind turbines can be knocked down with a chainsaw.
That would be an electrifying adventure for them
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