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Don't make excuses for this destructive policy.

A visualization of turbines at different distances: https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/...

Turbines are all but invisible at 21 miles out, the minimum distance the california RWE project would have been installed at. Beyond that, they are hidden by the earths curvature.

https://www.northcoastoffshorewind.org/post/how-visible-woul...

https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/humbo...

Nice goalpost shift. Wonder what source provides your propaganda. If you look at the entire picture, you’re doing far far more benefit for the environment by reducing fossil fuel dependency. But go ahead and cry for the birds.

Exactly this. I know HN is obviously a very pro tech, pro science demographic, but I can't believe there's so little opposition to having our coasts littered with wind turbines.

I don't care how energy efficient it is. It's dystopian and depressing.