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People Are Okay With Wind & Solar Installations In Their Neighborhoods, Studies Say
(cleantechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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That's kind of moot for wind though, since most residential neighbourhoods are apparently pretty shit for that. Something to do with the wind being more turbulent because of all the buildings.
Wind power is best at sea, or maybe in the open countryside (where it's ugly, but no worse than the massive coal power station I've been able to see since I was born).
Solar? Well some of us lucky enough to live in the right places, or have a roof slanting in the right direction already have that. (Not sure why we're still building houses facing all sorts of directions with a traditional pointed roof, when we can face them all the same way with a larger, south/north facing section for optimal solar panel placement)
I doubt a solar farm would bother that many people, they're low to the ground and have no moving parts. Yeah, ugly I guess, but so are farmer's fields.