As renewable energy becomes more widespread in the United States, large and bipartisan majorities of Americans say they wouldn’t mind fields of solar panels and wind turbines being built in their communities, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
I never thought anyone had an objection to solar or wind farms except colossal idiots.
People don’t object to them unless they are near them. There’s a phrase for it. Nimbyism. Not in my backyard
I think windmills are beautiful, solar panels in fields a bit harder on the eyes, but there’s plenty of places to put solar without ruining outstanding areas of natural beauty
I’d love it if my backyard (or just beyond it) was a wind farm.
- Open space
- No traffic
- No yappy dogs
- No Karens/Kevins/Krotchgoblins pretending their backyard is a combination kitchen and living room, filling the air with wood smoke and sportsball shouting on an otherwise beautiful day/evening where I’d prefer to have my windows open and would if there wasn’t a perpetual party just outside of said windows (yes this is a very specific complaint and no I would not have thought this was something to be annoyed about until it became chronic and annoying)
The problem is that the people complaining already have that. Companies just want to make it ‘worse’.
I don’t have a problem with wind turbines most of the time, I think they look cool, I have a bigger problem with power lines. At least they have some new designs here in the UK that are slightly better.
Yep, go north of Detroit and you end up seeing these yokels. Which is really sad since we’d all really benefit from it.
I don’t mind windmills but I’d hate having them directly in my backyard. Between the noise and the constant moving shadows, I’d probably go mad.
truly a most unbearable ruckus, how will you live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHFjLQuJhnc
seriously people freak out about the nonexistent noise of wind turbines, meanwhile they merrily live next to high-traffic roads that not only have studies to show how much the noise harms you, there’s also the lovely air pollution to breathe in!
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.
Lol yeah maybe because that entire narrative was spun out of whole cloth, and nobody actually cares about having a wind or solar farm somewhat near to them…?
Solar farms I haven’t thought much about; they seem innocuous. Wind farms look cool and I’d be happy to live near one.
Wind turbines are noisy. You probably wouldn’t mind them in view, but you don’t want to live too close. The owners don’t want you to live too close either: while it almost never happens, if a blade falls off and it only kills some corn or a cow people don’t care too much, but if it destroys their house or kills a person they get mad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DxIyU5zaU
seriously i’m starting to think anyone who parrots this made up talking point is actually just a paid shill, THEY DON’T MAKE NOISE.
People largely don’t object to climate measures in general.