Adverse impacts of wind energy: Difference between revisions

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).[http://aweo.org/windmodels.html] At night they require warning lights for airplanes. 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, the peace and quiet, especially at night, of those places. (See also “[[#Noise|Noise]]” and “[[#Tourism|Tourism]]” below.)