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Looking at urban landscapes in Europe in general I expect diminishing returns with everyone placing a useful windmill. And it would be ugly as hell no matter what (imagine every roof having one of these monstrosities).

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Pop culture and mainstream politics affect people’s opinions in a weird way. Only in the USA and some part of the western world, people see wind turbines as “ugly”. Coming from another part where wind turbines are picking up very fast, the words I have heard are “amazing” and “elegant”.

Until you're living near one of them, and constantly hear the low thump, thump, thump their blades make when passing lowest point, and as such their very own mast, by necessity.

At varying speeds.

Indeed. I regard wind turbines as striking kinetic sculptures in the landscape.

Hello from 50-55 degrees latitude where we get our heads blown off by the jet stream all. the. time.

Yours might be HN's first comment from South Georgia!

I’ll learn to not mix those two sometime in the next decade. Pinky promise

From what I hear the showstopper for home wind turbines is the noise. Even the quietest ones produce some sound, which at your house when you're trying to sleep is annoying.

I'd imagine things with moving parts need alot of maintenance too.

Make them sparkle and glitter. Can't be more ugly than the forests of countless antennas for terrestial TV, which were not that uncommon not too long ago, or the satellite dishes pointing south to GEO.

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