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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Wind turbines aint ugly, you can simply fix the picture by just moving your mom out of frame

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Look these people are nimby assholes but this isn't what people bitch about. They bitch and it getting put in their backyards in nicer locations.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

windmill is mocking the steam generator

[–] notsle@kzoo.to 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

So close to a not-stupid comparison. Onshore wind turbines, at most, produce around 7 MW of electricity (probably much less for this one, but same order of magnitude). I'm assuming at a glance that this is a coal-fired power station; if so, at this size it probably has a capacity over a GW. If we populated the image with hundreds of the pictured wind turbine, it would be a clusterfuck. The major difference isn't that wind turbines are inherently prettier per MW; it's that wind turbines are usually dispersed offshore and in mostly barren rural areas, and what few smaller ones are in urban areas are unobtrusive.

All you had to do is show multiple wind turbines out in the country or offshore and place that side-by-side with the plant, but instead it has to be a pithy "gotcha" instead of an actual comparison. I, for one, much prefer the turbines.

An image of an onshore wind farm near Palm Springs

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[–] cile.sb@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago
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