Does the cost-benefit work out positive? Sure. But there are still downsides.
Dead birds, dead bats, noise pollution, visual pollution.
It's invisible from shore, nobody to hear the noise, no migration paths.
Damaging the profits of the oil companies and threatening the jobs of those who produce fossil fuels.
10 times more jobs per kWh produced than fossil fuel-based generation.
Complication electrical grid design to deal with the more distributed inputs.
Technically solvable problems. More jobs for engineers. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
in a nutshell, do we have the cultural and intellectual curiosity to support a life lived without the dignity of work -as we knew it.
in 2 generations i've seen the shift between one's work being a lifelong choice, with massive implications for one's sense of identity, destiny, andsocial continuity, to a free for all clever-clever slippery-monkey grabfest, to a redimensionising one's balance between work and leisure, and increasingly seeking satisfaction, identity and self-actualisation outside the work place, rather than from inside it.
this inversion can sometimes follow through to the point where what starts as a relaxing hobby, can flower into the main driver for self-expression and even financial success.
that is the greatest adaptation one can achieve and exemplify, i believe. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
