Does wind power cause visual pollution in your opinion? (lemmy.world)

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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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[-] Phoonzang@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Whenever someone brings up that argument (windmills are ugly), which is quite a controversial topic in the country I live in, I take them to the open pit coal mines of the area. Those are really ugly.

I do understand the argument that the intermittent shadows the rotating blades may cast on residential areas are annoying.

[-] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

They can't be set next to residential areas for many reasons. One freak reason most people don't know is that ice can accumulate on the tip of the blades and get thrown into the air. Having a 5kg ice blocks randomly falling on your house isn't nice.

[-] stackPeek@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Why the heck would you build that on residential area anyway? SimCity taught me since I was a kid that industrial factories and windmills shouldn't be built beside houses

[-] commanderbalok@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I love telling this story. I lived on the second story apartment above a restaurant, behind the restaurant was this shed. One sat morning, very hung over, I am awaken at sunrise with a bright bedroom. Wtf? Look outside and turns out the shed now has solar panels that just happened to catch the light at sunrise and reflect it into my window.

I invested in better curtains.

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