Some People Find Wind Turbines To Be Ugly
Regarding the aesthetics of wind turbines, Glenn Doty writes: It’s a matter of opinion and taste. For as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve seen windmills on postcards and paintings… expressions of beauty. The sleek towers today look far different from the old corn mills of yesteryear, but I still find them beautiful.
Yes, it’s subjective; I don’t really have a feeling on this one way or the other. When people complain that winds farms are eyesores, I often ask, “Do you like the look of coal plants? Dead coral reefs? Black lung tissue?” Snide, I’ll admit, but I can’t help myself.
Craig,
Could you explain how Wind Turbines will save coral reefs ?
Black Lung, has almost disappeared with modern mining practices.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has monitored trends in black lung for over 40 years in the United States. Only 0.08% of all mine workers and 0.33% of underground coal miners with at least 25 years of mining were diagnosed with progressive massive fibrosis in 2000.
Complacency among workers, and failure of workers to comply with dust control regimes is responsible for the condition existing at all.
Those figures which are infinitesimal in comparison to most industrial work hazards, have dropped further in the past two decades. Actuarial assessments of Workers manufacturing, erecting and maintaining wind turbines reveal a more hazardous work environment than coal mining, but it’s hard to kill exciting myths.