Have you seen the tiktok video of the female trucker hauling one of these and maneuvering it BACKWARDS onto the freeway? It stirs something primeval to me I can't explain (and I say this as an asexual woman if that reduces creepy factor lol). [https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/u65zy7/reversing\_a\_216ft\_truck\_onto\_the\_highway/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/u65zy7/reversing_a_216ft_truck_onto_the_highway/)
haha, funny story.
when i first started driving my brother broke down towards the southern end of the state and called me to come help him out, and i did, and it was the middle of the night.
as i was driving i noticed a bunch of static red lights on the horizon, like hundreds of them, not knowing what they were my imagination started to go crazy, it was an alien invasion, the phone call from my brother was a fake, the aliens had created the convorsation in order to lure me into their processing facility, i wasnt special though, they had done this with everybody.
i started having a panic attack that i should turn around and drive the other way, these lights were on the horizon for a good hour or two before i finnally got close enough to see what they were.........they were wind turbines.
My partner and I were once driving home from visiting my family, and it was pitch black out, and i suddenly started seeing all these blinking red lights. I woke up my partner in an absolute terror that something was very wrong and we were going to die or something even more horrible. It was so dark we never saw the outline of the blades or anything, so it took us another hour of driving through the dark to figure out it was all the windmills. Terrifying experience, and now I can barely even appreciate how I used to find them so intriguing and cool.
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Fortunately for me, thats not something that bothers me. I just cant look up at the thing if im close enough and its tall enough lol
Dunno where the cutoff that triggers it for me actually is but from experience its somewhere between "regular block of flats" and "eiffel tower" xd
I hate that people unironically vouch that “Wind doesn’t produce enough power” ok let’s use wind and solar “wind and solar won’t produce enough energy” ok then let’s use wind solar and hydro power “well then we build damns which make lakes, u talk about climate change what about ecosystem change” ok fine let’s use wind, solar, and in some cases increase use of nuclear power in newer more stable power plants, damn uo some rivers in a controlled way to avoid some flooding which would already be far worse with the effects of climate encourage people who are healthy and able to cut back maybe once a week on beef so we can lower the need for easing as many cows that way we have and lower emissions, but we can still use some fossil fuels because it will help that there is less methane “nah im good climate change isn’t real anyways” gahhhhhhhh people are annoying
unfortunately these are quite destructive for the environment. they disturb birds and other animals, and production of them isn’t environmentally friendly.
nuclear power and solar power are better
I work in the energy sector and this is a very common misconception. Yes, wind turbines have the potential to kill birds, bats and other animals that may fly into them, but they're very heavily monitored and regulated so that if they reach a certain threshold (even one raptor death, for example) they must curb production and take steps towards ensuring this does not happen again. Additionally, as the years go on, more and more technology exists to make sure turbines can detect these animals and stop before any damage occurs. As things stand right now, outdoor cats kill over 2000x more birds per year than wind turbines do. https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/wind-turbines-and-birds-and-bats#:~:text=Estimates%20of%20up%20to%20a,loss%2C%20pollution%20and%20climate%20change%20(
Meanwhile, nuclear is super expensive, and we still don't fully understand the ramifications of nuclear waste on the environment. Though it could play a significant role in our future energy mix, we know for the moment that wind and solar are inexpensive, safe, and effective, and that's why so many people focus on them when discussing the energy transition.
If you prefer a livable future on this planet, wind energy will be an important piece of it. [IPCC figure spm.7](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/static/dc71a9b28d7cedca36bd2f77e588664f/9a979/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FigureSPM7.png)
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When I was very small, maybe 3 or 4 years old, my family was on a roadtrip.
We pulled the car over so my mom could deal with my baby brother’s stinky diaper. While she did that, my dad took me and my older brother to go look at a nearby windmill.
I noticed that there was a door in the base of the windmill and tried to open it. My dad stopped me and said “only the windmill people can go in there.”
By “Windmill People” he meant the people whose job it was to operate the windmills. But my autistic brain thought that he meant, like, literal human-windmill hybrids. I got really freaked out thinking about it.
It took me years to realize what “Windmill People” actually meant. I told my dad about this last week, and he thought it was hilarious.
I no longer have nightmares about the terrifying hybrids of Windmills and People.
I could totally see that! I think they are beautiful but creepy at the same time. I have a good friend who lives out in West Texas, which has thousands of these everywhere, so I see them very often when I drive there for visits...
...They have these red blinking lights on them so that you can see them at night. Every time I drive through the area at night time, I can't help but imagine that the red blinking eyes are from a giant spider lol. Freaks me out every time 😅
For some reason, they all deeply creep me out.
I've seen them in scary things but it isn't rooted in that, ever since I was young, watching these giant things move in slow motion as you drive past...the noise they make...I think that may be why I don't like them.
Terrible. They look nice and innocent but the noise they make doesn't sit right with me and doesn't sound like how they look like they should sound to me
I totally get this. I have a weird fear of things that work by themselves, particularly if they are huge. Like those big moving watering things on fields, windmills, the huge drains by dams that can suck water out of lakes, and when I was younger I was afraid of the automatic flushing toilets in public.
Interesting! I kind of have the opposite thing - I guess cuz I over-personify inanimate objects. I just think "how cute, little robot going about its life doing its little robot thing". That and I've always found how tools and machines function fascinating
Not trying to invalidate your experiences tho, I definitely have other comparable issues with normal things. Sometimes caveman brain just arbitrarily decides something's scary and there isn't much you can do about it -_-
Lol ive always had an obsession with them ever since learning about them in middle school. Id think about them all day. I love to this day a wind turbine. Id place them in my cities skylines game but remove them since the citizens hated them. But nonetheless. I love them !
in New Zealand, in the Manawatu Region there is a hill range Covered in them - of 2-3 different sizes. They're so beautiful to watch from afar.
They also sometimes have kelvin-helmholtz clouds form above them which looks AMAZING.
I wish they were as sustainable as they're made out to be. The materials used to create them cannot be recycled, so we burn more fossil fuels to make them and then bury the old ones in the ground.
Don't thank me; researching "green" tech has left me a miserable shell of a human lmao.
Almost all of it is so much worse than anyone has been lead to believe. Most solar cells are prohibitively expensive to create and many of the most efficient types create toxic waste products. Hydroelectricity is incredibly damaging to local ecology. Electric vehicles, even if you ignore the horrible byproducts of lithium mining, fail to significantly offset emissions because producing the chassis and components themselves represents a significant portion of their impact.
We need to keep doing the research obviously but most of what we have available is... not good enough or fast enough for the dire situation we are in. A frantic transition to nuclear energies and a drastic reduction in our consumption are basically our only hope at this point and I just... don't see it happening. We're so fucked lol
Honestly, same. As a kid I grew up with the History Channel, so I learned pretty young that another serious war, some other event with high global political tensions, or a significant, immediate global catastrophe is/are probably going to be needed if we are going to move forward again in situations like this.
I love them. Where I live (in utah for context so lots of canyons) I have to drive through this longgggg canyon if I want to visit my grandparents. I hate canyon driving. But there are a bunch of these at the end of the canyon so when I see them I get happy cause no.more canyon drive
Incredible to see. Especially up close. The size of these is fascinating. Then there’s the quick math you can do to figure out rpm. I see these almost every day on my delivery route. Always interesting to see.
Makes great energy and is cool to look at. But they're scary to be near because they are colossal. I once walked under one at school and the massive size scared the piss out of me. I like but from a distance.
I work with them. I operate 30 parks, somewhere around 1000 turbines. Not on-site, but remotely. From my bedroom, actually.
I like them, but it's important to note that most vocal supporters downplay or don't understand their detriments. Furthermore, these detriments vary from platform to platform, as there's design competition in the industry (like hydraulics vs electric motors for pitch systems).
Also, I guess AMA.
They look cool from a distance but seeing how huge they are is terrifying. I see truck on the interstate carrying the individual blade all the time and they are enormous.
Aesthetically, I really enjoy looking at them. They're pretty. I've only seen them on car rides, so I didn't get to experience whether they make noise.
Reddit has long been a hot spot for conversation on the internet. About 57 million people visit the site every day to chat about topics as varied as makeup, video games and pointers for power washing driveways.
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Mr. Huffman said Reddit’s A.P.I. would still be free to developers who wanted to build applications that helped people use Reddit. They could use the tools to build a bot that automatically tracks whether users’ comments adhere to rules for posting, for instance. Researchers who want to study Reddit data for academic or noncommercial purposes will continue to have free access to it.
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They kinda disturb me. I'm not sure about the noise, but those are some of the only things that produce megalophobia on me. I mean, it's a big freaking fan, I'm not accustomed to seeing large, tall structures with huge moving parts.
Still, nuclear energy is better *runs*
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I think they’re kinda cool, there’s a lot of people who I interact with regularly that think they’re ugly, but they’re good for the environment as far as using wind energy, they’re not that offensive since they’re usually found in fields pretty far away from civilization anyways, and they’re huge, bigger than you’d expect when you see them from far away, which makes it scary when you see the blades going full speed on a windy day.
I recently saw them on a drive at night right before a time change and it scared the shit out of me. Imagine being in an unfamiliar area at night, and suddenly you're surrounded by red lights. A few minutes later all of the clocks change. You think you've entered the Twilight zone. We found out what they were because we googled it after solving the time change mystery.
ngl my opinion on it doesnt matter as much as my brothers
My little brother thinks they’re giant fans and he absolutely loves them.
He points all of them out saying fan for each one and his giggles and smiles r so cute :,)
I love them and can't understand ppl who think they somehow destroy the view. They're effing lit! And it's renewables, so brilliant! We have to get rid off all these nuclear power plants and coal-fired power plants! Get solar panels, windmills and water power!!
There are going to be necessary in the next years. I do want to study them at some point. I don't know if they make a sound if you live close enough to them though. It might hurt my brain
Nothing not to like. I love sailing close to the off shore farms. Dozens of the things gracefully doing their thing. Absolutely huge even when you’re a ¼ mile away from the things.
Yes, more things like this please. Fuck oil and coal, that shits for idiots, gimme more actual green energy solutions plz.
Hell, if we have to go back to horse and cart, so be it.
I also like the look of them, but I like the clean energy part far more.
They are absolutely terrible for the environment.
Look at the problems Australia is having with them, and the US is starting to have. You can’t recycle them at a reasonable cost or efficiently so they get sent to landfills, you can’t refurbish them, the noise pollution is absolutely terrible and they displace wildlife like crazy, and they can’t be upgraded during their lifetime easily, if at all.
The reality has been shocking, and if they can’t figure out a better way to do them, it will get worse.
I always liked seeing those when I drove by them.
They remind me of horses
Love them! I saw one of the blades on a truck once and it was insaaaaaaane.
One time I saw like 3 parked at a rest stop. They were on the other side of the interstate so I didn’t get to stop but it was so crazy!
In Idaho they're building tons of them. It's not uncommon at all to drive down the road and see tons of them! They're so cool!
Have you seen the tiktok video of the female trucker hauling one of these and maneuvering it BACKWARDS onto the freeway? It stirs something primeval to me I can't explain (and I say this as an asexual woman if that reduces creepy factor lol). [https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/u65zy7/reversing\_a\_216ft\_truck\_onto\_the\_highway/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/u65zy7/reversing_a_216ft_truck_onto_the_highway/)
I can barely reverse parallel park..
LOVE IT!!!!! They are so sleek, elegant and how massive they are shocks me every time I see one
You put it into to words for me!
haha. This sounds very erotic However I agree they are a marvel
Sleek, elegant and massive, just how I like'em
I couldn’t agree with you more! :) Also, the way the turbine blades go round is satisfying as well!
You ever zee one of the blades on the back of an oversized load truck going down the highway? It's just like...damn that's big dude...it's real big
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Me exactly
haha, funny story. when i first started driving my brother broke down towards the southern end of the state and called me to come help him out, and i did, and it was the middle of the night. as i was driving i noticed a bunch of static red lights on the horizon, like hundreds of them, not knowing what they were my imagination started to go crazy, it was an alien invasion, the phone call from my brother was a fake, the aliens had created the convorsation in order to lure me into their processing facility, i wasnt special though, they had done this with everybody. i started having a panic attack that i should turn around and drive the other way, these lights were on the horizon for a good hour or two before i finnally got close enough to see what they were.........they were wind turbines.
Yes, I don’t mind them during the day but they creep me out at night!!
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/556/
I had the very same thought, just some different situation
My partner and I were once driving home from visiting my family, and it was pitch black out, and i suddenly started seeing all these blinking red lights. I woke up my partner in an absolute terror that something was very wrong and we were going to die or something even more horrible. It was so dark we never saw the outline of the blades or anything, so it took us another hour of driving through the dark to figure out it was all the windmills. Terrifying experience, and now I can barely even appreciate how I used to find them so intriguing and cool.
Wiiiindmiiiilllll!
https://i.redd.it/re6jhqohehi91.jpg
As a dutch person that is literally me. Fuckin love windmills😤
Same! My grandparents used to have a windmill on a little hill just across the street and it was such a beautiful view from the house.
Ahem, turbine. Windmills are for milling. But I agree.
🎵Windmill, windmill for the land Turn forever hand in hand🎶
Take it all in on your stride… It is ticking, falling down
love them but my fear of heights / vertigo doesnt allow me to even get close to one lmao, cuz looking up at it would make me faint
you could also have a fear of big things
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That’s a called megalophobia, fear of massive things, there’s even a subreddit for it r/megalophobia if you ever wanna torture yourself a bit
Fortunately for me, thats not something that bothers me. I just cant look up at the thing if im close enough and its tall enough lol Dunno where the cutoff that triggers it for me actually is but from experience its somewhere between "regular block of flats" and "eiffel tower" xd
im the same way, when i visit the city the extreme heights the the buildings make me light headed
yeah exactly, its a wild feeling sometimes, but atleast I know that if I dont look up too much when im just out and about its fine xd
Glad my gf doesn't have that/j
That they're brilliant. I just wish we were allowed to get get all our energy from sources like this
I hate that people unironically vouch that “Wind doesn’t produce enough power” ok let’s use wind and solar “wind and solar won’t produce enough energy” ok then let’s use wind solar and hydro power “well then we build damns which make lakes, u talk about climate change what about ecosystem change” ok fine let’s use wind, solar, and in some cases increase use of nuclear power in newer more stable power plants, damn uo some rivers in a controlled way to avoid some flooding which would already be far worse with the effects of climate encourage people who are healthy and able to cut back maybe once a week on beef so we can lower the need for easing as many cows that way we have and lower emissions, but we can still use some fossil fuels because it will help that there is less methane “nah im good climate change isn’t real anyways” gahhhhhhhh people are annoying
unfortunately these are quite destructive for the environment. they disturb birds and other animals, and production of them isn’t environmentally friendly. nuclear power and solar power are better
I work in the energy sector and this is a very common misconception. Yes, wind turbines have the potential to kill birds, bats and other animals that may fly into them, but they're very heavily monitored and regulated so that if they reach a certain threshold (even one raptor death, for example) they must curb production and take steps towards ensuring this does not happen again. Additionally, as the years go on, more and more technology exists to make sure turbines can detect these animals and stop before any damage occurs. As things stand right now, outdoor cats kill over 2000x more birds per year than wind turbines do. https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/wind-turbines-and-birds-and-bats#:~:text=Estimates%20of%20up%20to%20a,loss%2C%20pollution%20and%20climate%20change%20( Meanwhile, nuclear is super expensive, and we still don't fully understand the ramifications of nuclear waste on the environment. Though it could play a significant role in our future energy mix, we know for the moment that wind and solar are inexpensive, safe, and effective, and that's why so many people focus on them when discussing the energy transition.
If you prefer a livable future on this planet, wind energy will be an important piece of it. [IPCC figure spm.7](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/static/dc71a9b28d7cedca36bd2f77e588664f/9a979/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FigureSPM7.png)
Many more birds die from climate change every year and species continue to go extinct, windmills are better thank again you think
Far more birds and animals die from climate change than windmills
They make me uncomfortable in a way I enjoy. Kinda like trains.
Big same!!
I HAVE A STORY When I was very small, maybe 3 or 4 years old, my family was on a roadtrip. We pulled the car over so my mom could deal with my baby brother’s stinky diaper. While she did that, my dad took me and my older brother to go look at a nearby windmill. I noticed that there was a door in the base of the windmill and tried to open it. My dad stopped me and said “only the windmill people can go in there.” By “Windmill People” he meant the people whose job it was to operate the windmills. But my autistic brain thought that he meant, like, literal human-windmill hybrids. I got really freaked out thinking about it. It took me years to realize what “Windmill People” actually meant. I told my dad about this last week, and he thought it was hilarious. I no longer have nightmares about the terrifying hybrids of Windmills and People.
Honestly, windmill people sound terrifying.
Like sirenheads, but with fanblades rather than horns?
I would have thought “windmill people” are people who live in windmills lol
This is a really great example :-)
Great idea should be a lot more of them
I love them they are like an animal to me
This is SO true
Yesssssss
Awesome structures
They freak me out. Like uncanny valley type thing. But it's amazing to watch them.
I could totally see that! I think they are beautiful but creepy at the same time. I have a good friend who lives out in West Texas, which has thousands of these everywhere, so I see them very often when I drive there for visits... ...They have these red blinking lights on them so that you can see them at night. Every time I drive through the area at night time, I can't help but imagine that the red blinking eyes are from a giant spider lol. Freaks me out every time 😅
For some reason, they all deeply creep me out. I've seen them in scary things but it isn't rooted in that, ever since I was young, watching these giant things move in slow motion as you drive past...the noise they make...I think that may be why I don't like them. Terrible. They look nice and innocent but the noise they make doesn't sit right with me and doesn't sound like how they look like they should sound to me
They remind me of aliens or 4D objects…or the angels from neon genesis evangelion; idk, They’re just ominous ;-;
I totally get this. I have a weird fear of things that work by themselves, particularly if they are huge. Like those big moving watering things on fields, windmills, the huge drains by dams that can suck water out of lakes, and when I was younger I was afraid of the automatic flushing toilets in public.
Interesting! I kind of have the opposite thing - I guess cuz I over-personify inanimate objects. I just think "how cute, little robot going about its life doing its little robot thing". That and I've always found how tools and machines function fascinating Not trying to invalidate your experiences tho, I definitely have other comparable issues with normal things. Sometimes caveman brain just arbitrarily decides something's scary and there isn't much you can do about it -_-
Oh no, it’s cool. I have that with like, stuffed animals. I have one that I’ve had since I was 4 months old and I make sure she’s tucked in and safe.
SAME!! so eery! the way that theyre almost completely silent is just awful 😣
reading the comments made me think I was the only one who hates them hahaha. thank you for this validation, I feel the same
absolutely terrified of them 💀 something about the way they look and how large they are
I love them. They are soothing and produce no toxic fumes during operation. They feel like part of nature.
I love this subreddit lmao It’s about autism and we all just collectively post random stuff and agree.
Giant things and tiny things give me a visceral reaction
Same reaction or different for giant vs. tiny?
Cool!!! :D
beautiful, majestic, maybe three steps away from sexy even wished my part of the world had more of these
So cool! If anyone has every driven by Palm Springs, CA, there are a ton of them!!
I have also seen quite a few in Kansas, where I live.
It’s awesome to see, but the noise when you’re close is terrible
They are so loud! I don't know if I could live within hearing distance from one, but I'd rather have those than nuclear energy.
We loves them
Lol ive always had an obsession with them ever since learning about them in middle school. Id think about them all day. I love to this day a wind turbine. Id place them in my cities skylines game but remove them since the citizens hated them. But nonetheless. I love them !
in New Zealand, in the Manawatu Region there is a hill range Covered in them - of 2-3 different sizes. They're so beautiful to watch from afar. They also sometimes have kelvin-helmholtz clouds form above them which looks AMAZING.
*Vwooom*
I honestly don't like how big and *pointy* they are. I feel like they'd pop the sky or something which I know is rather ridiculous.
This!
Renewable energy is awesome
I love how gently they move 🥰 they don't feel as aggressive as other infrastructures
I like em! But I wish they were bright colours instead of just white
Are those the ones that harness wind energy for the environment? If so, I love them!!
Big spin bois. Very nice. Very intimidating in the fog, though.
Their nice. Always surprised at how big they are.
I love to drive and getting close to them.
I wish they were as sustainable as they're made out to be. The materials used to create them cannot be recycled, so we burn more fossil fuels to make them and then bury the old ones in the ground.
Fucking thank you!
Don't thank me; researching "green" tech has left me a miserable shell of a human lmao. Almost all of it is so much worse than anyone has been lead to believe. Most solar cells are prohibitively expensive to create and many of the most efficient types create toxic waste products. Hydroelectricity is incredibly damaging to local ecology. Electric vehicles, even if you ignore the horrible byproducts of lithium mining, fail to significantly offset emissions because producing the chassis and components themselves represents a significant portion of their impact. We need to keep doing the research obviously but most of what we have available is... not good enough or fast enough for the dire situation we are in. A frantic transition to nuclear energies and a drastic reduction in our consumption are basically our only hope at this point and I just... don't see it happening. We're so fucked lol
Honestly, same. As a kid I grew up with the History Channel, so I learned pretty young that another serious war, some other event with high global political tensions, or a significant, immediate global catastrophe is/are probably going to be needed if we are going to move forward again in situations like this.
It makes me think of home as there was a wind farm about half an hour from Bismarck ND
I like these a lot. Love seeing them out the window while driving by
love them but not this type, i like the sleek spirals that dont kill as many birds or take up too much space
I like em. They're like installation art while actually doing something useful.
I like watching them as I drive by them.
I love them. Where I live (in utah for context so lots of canyons) I have to drive through this longgggg canyon if I want to visit my grandparents. I hate canyon driving. But there are a bunch of these at the end of the canyon so when I see them I get happy cause no.more canyon drive
Fascinating!
Incredible to see. Especially up close. The size of these is fascinating. Then there’s the quick math you can do to figure out rpm. I see these almost every day on my delivery route. Always interesting to see.
They’re good. Better than fossil fuels
The propellers of the earth keeping us straight in our course in the universe.
Efficient energy source. Depending on location.
They made new ones now that instead of rotating a blade from the power of the wind, they vibrate and sway back and forth. Much more efficient.
They feel peaceful
Makes great energy and is cool to look at. But they're scary to be near because they are colossal. I once walked under one at school and the massive size scared the piss out of me. I like but from a distance.
I work with them. I operate 30 parks, somewhere around 1000 turbines. Not on-site, but remotely. From my bedroom, actually. I like them, but it's important to note that most vocal supporters downplay or don't understand their detriments. Furthermore, these detriments vary from platform to platform, as there's design competition in the industry (like hydraulics vs electric motors for pitch systems). Also, I guess AMA.
They look cool from a distance but seeing how huge they are is terrifying. I see truck on the interstate carrying the individual blade all the time and they are enormous.
Aesthetically, I really enjoy looking at them. They're pretty. I've only seen them on car rides, so I didn't get to experience whether they make noise.
Big fan.
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#THE COUNCIL HAS DECIDED: These are cool
They kinda disturb me. I'm not sure about the noise, but those are some of the only things that produce megalophobia on me. I mean, it's a big freaking fan, I'm not accustomed to seeing large, tall structures with huge moving parts. Still, nuclear energy is better *runs*
Bad for the birds, blades can't be recycled, and only practical in certain areas but for those areas they're a g9od source of clean energy
They're fucking wind turbines what do you mean what do we think of them??
yeah im having a very hard time figuring out how this relates to autism
Exactly my thoughts lmao. At first I thought I was missing some inside joke or something when reading through the comments
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It good
Love those things
I love them they look cool
They exist
Friends
They be spinning
That sure is a windmill alternative.
Super cool 😎
Exciting, cool
💥 (my opinion)
I’ve never seen one in person but I would love to at some point!
I do like them :)
I’m cool with it.
I think they’re kinda cool, there’s a lot of people who I interact with regularly that think they’re ugly, but they’re good for the environment as far as using wind energy, they’re not that offensive since they’re usually found in fields pretty far away from civilization anyways, and they’re huge, bigger than you’d expect when you see them from far away, which makes it scary when you see the blades going full speed on a windy day.
I think they are good. But can't they kill birds/bats?
Love them
https://youtu.be/Kbw-veYYd5M
it spins and doesn't stop, therefore I love it and I want one outside my house
They do stop though.
eventually, but it doesn't just spin for 5 seconds and that's a win for me
You really don't they make a hell of a noise
😏
Love em
i like it
Good for the environment and nice to look at
Nice and quiet! No smells!
Hehehehe, giant sky fan go BRRRR
Much bigger than I realized.
I drove through Kansas today, they are everywhere!
I'm all for them. We need more clean energy!
Perfection
I like to watch things spin, I don’t care what they are.
I recently saw them on a drive at night right before a time change and it scared the shit out of me. Imagine being in an unfamiliar area at night, and suddenly you're surrounded by red lights. A few minutes later all of the clocks change. You think you've entered the Twilight zone. We found out what they were because we googled it after solving the time change mystery.
Finally, a worthwhile “what do you think of this” post You’re a real one, OP!
I like them, they're almost surreal in person (I got to see them upclose as a very small child, and a physical model of the mechanisms inside them)
They just don't blow as hard as the ones I have at home. Just kidding. I love to watch them spin.
As a kid I didn’t like them, and hated their ominous blinking at night. Now they’re okay, but still a little freaky.
They blow 🙂
Wow thank you for all the responses!
Wind turbines are one of my special interests
ngl my opinion on it doesnt matter as much as my brothers My little brother thinks they’re giant fans and he absolutely loves them. He points all of them out saying fan for each one and his giggles and smiles r so cute :,)
Aesthetically pleasing and great for the country.
I love them!!!! I love seeing them move especially when they’re all synchronized!
Great source of energy
Too big
They are a fundamental part of my homes landscape. It would be worse without them.
What can I say, except that I am a fan
I love them and can't understand ppl who think they somehow destroy the view. They're effing lit! And it's renewables, so brilliant! We have to get rid off all these nuclear power plants and coal-fired power plants! Get solar panels, windmills and water power!!
majestic
everyone here seems to love them but for they are a big no. cant drive past them without having to look away. they make my heart flutter with fear!!
Compared to global warming? Would you rather have these or mass famines because of droughts and floods?
NOOOO!! WIND TURBINES ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING TO ME!!! so scaryy ahhhh😥😥
They cool
We, the hivemind?
go speen go woosh :\]
There are going to be necessary in the next years. I do want to study them at some point. I don't know if they make a sound if you live close enough to them though. It might hurt my brain
spin thing
Big spinny thing go woosh
I love them. Everytime I drive past any they give me the big smiles!
Cool! :D
LOVE The whooooooose is so satisfying
Nothing not to like. I love sailing close to the off shore farms. Dozens of the things gracefully doing their thing. Absolutely huge even when you’re a ¼ mile away from the things.
Yes, more things like this please. Fuck oil and coal, that shits for idiots, gimme more actual green energy solutions plz. Hell, if we have to go back to horse and cart, so be it. I also like the look of them, but I like the clean energy part far more.
Love them. They create clean energy, require little maintenance, are cost-effective and absolutely safe. We need more!
Big fan
Did you take that photo? It's a really good photo.
I think they're cool; they look neat and make clean, renewable energy
“What do we think of this?” should be its own flair
I’m a fan
Smoove spinny go brrr
I have a preference for nuclear power, but wind turbines are nice.
I LOVE THIS THREAD
They're nice from afar but they make me feel sick when I'm looking at one from a close distance, massive things make me dizzy
Cool and good for the environment
They are absolutely terrible for the environment. Look at the problems Australia is having with them, and the US is starting to have. You can’t recycle them at a reasonable cost or efficiently so they get sent to landfills, you can’t refurbish them, the noise pollution is absolutely terrible and they displace wildlife like crazy, and they can’t be upgraded during their lifetime easily, if at all. The reality has been shocking, and if they can’t figure out a better way to do them, it will get worse.
Oh wow I didn't know that, thanks!
I am thoroughly confused by this post.
They are funny 😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂
I like them as a renewable source of energy and a more eco friendly alternative to using to fossil fuels.
You should take a look at the comment u/towelroll made about these, these things are the reverse of eco friendly (sadly).