bencourtice, 4 months ago

This landscape has also been industrialised. Just sayin'.
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bencourtice, 4 months ago

There's still people complaining about wind farms, for an odd grab-bag of mostly incomprehensible or spurious reasons.
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Sign on fence. Red cloth with yellow writing "Wind turbines are a 150 mt high health hazard"
Row of wind turbines in background. Fence in foreground, on roadside, has professionally printed metal sign reading "Private property no photos to be taken of turbines". "Wanted neighbours..." sign is also nearby.

bencourtice, 4 months ago

(I can't tell from driving past if the reasons suggested, noise and shadow flicker are 1. genuine, 2. exaggerated, or 3. purely spurious. But in my long observation of these things it's 2 or 3 in the vast majority of cases. If 3, usually either ideologically opposed, or hoping for a payout)
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bencourtice, 4 months ago

Elsewhere I see roadside signs opposing solar farms (!) and in the Kiewa Valley, opposing a big grid-connected battery.
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#batteries #energytransition

bencourtice, 4 months ago

This is on the north-western outskirts of Melbourne. I don't know what project it is responding to or the arguments behind it, but anti-solar farm campains are mostly either suffering from terminal NIMBYism or ideologically driven. Often both.
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#solar #energiewende #energytransition

neoluddite, 4 months ago

@bencourtice @jpm technically speaking, all farms are solar farms

timrichards, 4 months ago

@bencourtice On what grounds do people object to solar farms?