Comment by bluefirebrand

Comment by bluefirebrand 4 hours ago

2 replies

I don't think you should dismiss opposition to wind as mere NIMBYism

Windmills can be super loud and disruptive if they are built near you

Take a look around online and you can find people posting videos along the lines of "A windmill was built near my house, now every evening it's like a strobe light in here as the sun sets behind the windmill"

I wouldn't want to live anywhere near one myself

Tade0 2 hours ago

I went right up to a 2MW windmill once to test this hypothesis and all I could hear were cars on a road (100km/h speed limit) several hundred metres away.

procaryote 2 hours ago

Isn't that exactly what NIMBY means?

People want the power to stay on but they don't want the power generation built near them.