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 Not in my back yard: Wealthy, white communities oppose wind energy

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https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/whealthy-white-americans-oppose-wind-energy/ 
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This is convincing until you actually see how clean wind power looks like at close distance. On-shore wind turbines faced protests everywhere, including Norway, Sweden, UK, France and Germany - not based on some abstract “privilege” but based on their high environmental impact, that even more visible in high population density areas. Also, low power density of wind turbines means a single turbine - that would be likely not a problem - has no value, you need to install hundreds of them in order to actually get any useful amount of electricity. This turns dozens of square kilometres into an industrial landscape, because the towers also need to be connected with maintenance road, cables, substations etc.

https://agora.echelon.pl/media/4f6d23326789684816890a00f7a308280f8248527345465a8f6fe350b06bc3b3.png

https://agora.echelon.pl/media/07a06cb527d7742b8e53eb98c216e5d34e4b472aa480f4917cd23003a63bac2d.png

https://agora.echelon.pl/media/127028e7b6aa7f74efe1ad679b31c898612f2fa524088cce5aff49b40574a090.png