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• AbsolutelyNotABot@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly even some environmentalists over here are against wind turbines because they say they are “unnatural” and as such they shouldn’t have a place in woods and natural landscapes.

  So at this point I’m starting to think we’re doom and fuck everything

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  • mandolrain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some valid critique against them is that the noise they make, make it difficult for people to live near them, or that they scare off the wild life population due to their noise. However, I wonder how much wild life will be destroyed when the earth ultimately explodes due to the use of other energy sources

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    • JoKi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, just think about what would happen to the wild life population, if men just build unnatural constructions all over the world that destroys existing nature and around them there would be strange noise like from tools that are burning fossil fuel to create small explosions just to move something.

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    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I'm always wondering about that. I have never been close to one, so i don't know whatkind of noise they make and how loud it actually is. But in videos where people are next to it, it never picks up anything. Saying they are unnatural is just absurd, just look around what we did to this planet, non of it is "natural". If these assholes find a better solution, they can start complaining

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    • FunkyClown@lemmy.fail ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What noise? I was in a rural area taking this photo of one and even then, this close you had to listen carefully to hear anything: ibb.co/rmQRmyZ

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      • mandolrain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You know how we tend to lose hearing on some frequencies as we grow older? It’s the same thing here basically, wind turbines are known to produce low frequency infrasound, which some people (but probably most won’t) hear. It’s doesn’t seem perfectly clear how these sounds affect wild life. From a quick Google search on “wind turbines effects on wild life” I found an abundance of scientific articles touching on this topic

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually think they’re quite pretty. And they’re not very loud even standing under one.

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• nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, but they cast shadows and people don’t flickering shadows in their homes.

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• FunkyClown@lemmy.fail ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Morons. I saw some on the weekend and drove as close as I could get to them to check it out. I was within getting messed up range if a blade came off and I could barely even hear it. This was rural with zero background noise as well. It’s almost like the complainers have never seen one in person.

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