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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by Xylakant on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:50PM (#15170461)
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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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by k__ on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:30PM (#15170680)
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.

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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by Xylakant on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:58PM (#15170827)
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.
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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by deusex_ on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:29PM (#15170676)
That's one of the advantages of off shore turbines, no disturbing.
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