If I had bought a house on a remote greek island, I didn't do it to have the calmness and serenity ruined by a dozen massive towers with immense spinning blades.
Compensation is crucial. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
And the absolute proof that wind turbines are a great sight is how companies with no obvious link to wind energy will find ways to put one on the cover of their annual report - ie there is no object with more positive symbolism - no image that people would rather see, as per the amrketing and PD departments of all these corporations.
And people with actual wind farms near thir houses overwhelmingly agree. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
But of course, if they are a positive external cost, maybe the people living close to them should actually pay the power company for the improved view? Though I'm not sure how well that would be recieved.
You might find them beautiful, well actually so do I, granted that they stay far away from my back yard. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
In October I was driving in central Washington state, and, across the Columbia River, there was a double array of turbines with the blades turning in random orientations. It was a magnificent sight.
The normal operating sound is sort of soothing. Can't wait to get one or more of "my own". paul spencer
