To find huge off shore wind turbines unsettling?

[BlackOrangeFrog]

So, I'm all for the wind power etc don't get me wrong. And I don't mind them "interrupting" the view.

It's the sheer size of them.

Currently sitting on a beach in Norfolk, looking out to see, the wind turbines look closes but are actually 2 miles away. It's because of the sea distorting distance. But also, mainly they so freaking MASSIVE.

Its all a bit freaky and they creep me out a bit.

Same with any big engineering tbh

I love them. I went on a boat trip to a wind farm last year- fantastic!

Yep... Two wrongs do not make a right, however sometimes you just have to choose between them anyway.

Unless you have a truly green viable option ready to go... right now...

I'm sure I read somewhere that the wind farms off the Norfolk coast are a possible reason the seal colony at Horsey has grown so much in the last 20 years. The turbines create a sort of artificial reef which attracts fish.

We viewed a house about 600m from the nearest turbine of the local wind farm. You could hear a hum from the turbine when outside, which isn't ideal for relaxing in your garden I guess, but in many ways it was not as bad as the road we're currently close to. Couldn't hear it from inside.

There's so much that kinda needs to happen that can be a nuisance to live close to: roads, quarries, factories, etc, and I feel that wind turbines are a lot less troublesome than most things.

Yes, it’s called degrowth.

YES! I cannot make my mind see the people as normal sized. They have definitely been shrunk!

I recall about 20 years ago I was living in Poland and went on a trip over the border to Germany. As soon as we were on the autobahn these huge wind turbines came into view. I’d never seen anything like it, I was mesmerized. Most of all because they,
to me, represented progress.

I wouldn’t want to live right under one, because of the noise not the “look” (believe me I did get dh to look into getting a small one for our garden). But generally I love them.

How big of a population cut are you proposing? And how do you suggest we power that reduced population?

If you don’t like them i suggest you stop using all electricity.

I work in renewable energy. Most turbines.

Engineers do climb occasionally, esp the tech experts. Technicians do list of climbing however.

Same!! Big boats give me the heebie jeebies! They decommission oil rigs near me and they are the worse for the heebies.

My friends dad was involved with overseeing the building of the offshore turbines in China and then being shipped over to Scotland. It’s very interesting work but makes me feel strange 😂

I just don't like looking at them... All for what they do...
Just not the creepy massive looming presence.

They look far better than the coal power station down the road from here, and way way better than the open cast mines up the valleys.

Your energy has to come from somewhere.

Better that presence you can see than the gases you can't see coming from fossil fuel stations - the invisible gases are dangerous unlike the turbines

No, not just you. For me it's old style factories and churches. A good friend of mine told me the church had done me so very wrong in a past life and I kind of prefer that version to it being a phobia. That I pissed off the church/any church enough for me to fear them in a new life makes me oddly proud of myself!

Still fucking creepy

Don't even get me started on empty swimming pools...

I remember this happening (or at least, reading about it on reddit), and have always wondered why on earth there is not an escape option, an abseiling attachment for example. I hate to imagine how they must have felt.

I drive past a small wind farm quite often - only 5 turbines - think about those men every time I go near.

Please say there was a happy ending for them?!

I suspect I live near that beach, one of them caught fire one summer whilst it was turning and the smoke spiralled.

I like the wind turbines to look at, certainly better than the gas power station that is nearby. But there is one in the car park field of Africa Alive and it is huge, and that is a small one.

Sadly not 😞

Have you seen the video of one with one of it's propellers on fire and still spinning?

I'll see if i can find it ...