Every time I've driven past a wind farm I think it looks amazing. I would love to just stare at them from my backyard if they weren't all in the middle of nowhere.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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“Oh god! Our house is living right next to a source of renewable energy! The horrors! People will gawk at the unsightly solar panels!”
Nah man I’m just happy renewable energy is growing. Coat my house in windmills and panels, baby. Turn that shit into a functional aesthetic.
smh cant believe the Washington Post mistook solar and wind farms for UFOs. At least UFO's are real /s
(idk ive noticed sometimes the wrong thumbnail gets loaded in. Mine looks like that too)
I think it's kbin related but I still don't get how it happens, because I doubt this thumbnail came even from another WaPo article, as it's too fringe conspiracy bs & clickbaity. Honestly looks more like a YT video, especially with the black bars.
How did they define "near" and "in their community"?
There's a decent sized wind farm a few miles outside the town I live in and no one minds at all. If you tried to build that same wind farm right on the edge of town, or even inside it, I suspect the reaction would have been very different. A wind / solar farm 5 miles away is really NBD but one that's literally on the other side of your back fence may hit different.
Given how quiet solar farms are and how more appealing a windmill is vs smokestacks I'd say that even basically in your backyard isn't bad.
But I'd also like to know how they defined it here, or if they left it as asking people about it and leaving it up to each individual to use their idea of "near."