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Wind turbines meant to supply the grid are hundreds of feet in height, each with blades sweeping a vertical air space of 1.5 to 2 acres. Because they need to be well away from where people live and work, and because they need a lot of open space around them to adequately catch the wind and not interfere with each other’s wind, they are necessarily erected in formerly undeveloped places: typically farmland and mountain ridges. They inevitably dominate the landscape and destroy the special character of those places. | Wind turbines meant to supply the grid are hundreds of feet in height, each with blades sweeping a vertical air space of 1.5 to 2 acres (or even more).<ref>http://aweo.org/windmodels.html</ref> Because they need to be well away from where people live and work, and because they need a lot of open space around them to adequately catch the wind and not interfere with each other’s wind, they are necessarily erected in formerly undeveloped places: typically farmland and mountain ridges. They inevitably dominate the landscape and destroy the special character of those places. | ||
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:''See also:'' [https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/category/aesthetics/?titles=on Wind Watch documents concerning aesthetics] | :''See also:'' [https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/category/aesthetics/?titles=on Wind Watch documents concerning aesthetics] | ||