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I'm uite the same on land ones. I admire the ingenuity of the view. Seeing wind turbines and solar farms on the landscape is nice; cool, even.
People that don't like them, I just don't know why. Maybe they had a traumatic interaction with a desk fan as a kid.
The sentiment against renewable energy is about as rational as the sentiment against vaccines. Yet here we are.
Honestly I think that any community that objects to wind farms or solar panels just on irrational bases like that should get an oil derek built in the centre of town, even if it's just for show. Just to make the point.
A lot of it is NIMBYism, it's not that they don't want wind farms it's that they don't want wind farms here. Because they think that if you don't build a wind farm in their community you'll also not build a cold burning power station in their community. Often this is correct because what is a good location for wind farm is a bad location for a power station.
NIMBYism is certainly a factor but a lot of it is also just general Trumpery.
"I want nothing to change, ever, and I want to enjoy all my luxuries without accepting any kind of personal burden or to compromise on anything as long as I live. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR??"
Yeah, there’s a whole group of them that buy bigger less efficient vehicles because they think it patriotic to burn oil.
At this point, it’s economically irresponsible not to transition to renewables, even from a conservative, market-focused perspective. Fossil fuel power plants require ongoing fuel purchases to operate. Renewable energy sources like wind and solar do not.
Once installed, renewables generate electricity without the continuous cost of buying and burning fuel. That difference fundamentally changes the economics. When you factor in the long-term savings from not having to purchase a resource that must be consumed to produce power, the financial case for renewables becomes difficult to ignore.
Renewables also have the potential to change how we think about energy forever. We'd never have to have a conservation mindset concerning energy use. Can you imagine what could be possible if you didn't have to worry about the cost or ammonunt of energy you need to perform a task?
Absolutely god damned right. What we are fighting is a century and trillions of dollars sunk into behemoth infrastructure and a web of industries that is based on a dying model, and the people who own that infrastructure and industry will fight tooth and nail to keep the world hooked into them, they are very literally investing heavy money into propaganda and mass manipulation to keep it that way.
Humanity is being brainwashed on scale, and it's working, but cracks are showing. Can't fool all the people all the time, and the writing is on the wall when it comes to fossil fuel.
I agree so much. Harvesting free energy with clever engineering makes me happy. This is the world I want to live in. But some people are stubborn and sluggish. It's hard to not get impatient or angry.