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Originally Posted by Britannist
True. I am among those who do not like the look of wind turbines.
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Anecdotal, and a personal view....
Mrs B and I were driving to Caen in Normandy from Calais.
We pulled off the highway at a rest area. It was very basic. His and her loos. And a wind turbine. It was quite foggy and we didn't actually notice the wind turbine until we got back to the car. It looked majestic (in our opinion) towering out of the mist.
Mrs B has always loved the look of them. Eye of the beholder, you see.
(I don't suppose she married me just for my looks..........
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That's the aesthetics.
I do also have some technical and commercial interest in these (and other) generation systems, in particular the power conversion side.
But, in my opinion, renewable sources have quite some way to go before they become a significant proportion of our power generation capacity.