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Having lived in viewing distance of two nuclear power plants in germany, I can tell you I vastly prefer wind turbines. Coal power plants are not exactly beautiful either. Germany is a densely populated country, there's practically no space where you can build anything without disturbing someone. I'm afraid we'll have to disturb someone if we want electricity.

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Yes, same here.

I lived in viewing distance to AKW Biblis, the sun basically set behind it in the evening, kinda surreal picture, haha.

I also regularly go on vacation on a farm that has multiple wind turbines in viewing and hearing distance, find them kinda soothing.

The Rhine valley is crazy with nuclear plants. A few kilometers upstream from Biblis is Philippsburg and then there's Fessenheim on the French side and Leibstadt in Switzerland. That makes 4 nuclear plants on 350km of Europes largest river valley.

That's one of the advantages of off shore turbines, no disturbing.

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