And, some ideas are good, and very, very cheap. There is no reason to avoid implementing those.

Building out wind saves birds from petroleum pollution. A bit of paint saves more. Why not?

If some wild paintscheme reduces the odds of wind being built...that's bad.

I'm not concern trolling.

Renewable energy is a huge win. Anything that hurts the chance of it being built is bad.

The very first comment guideline: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

You have no shred of evidence that even hints people would try to block construction of wind turbines because of asymmetric paint. It could just as easily make them clamor for more of them.

Next you get people who don't like the patterns or think there are better patterns. It's not a bit of paint for existing blades. It's appreciable weight added to the blades, to repaint.

Everyone in the US can easily identify the wind turbines, because of the uniformity. The uniformity and simplicity has inherent value in large projects (including large volume). White to dissipate heat or black to save birds (let the bats die either way?). It's not surprising that prolonging the state of the current environment may require short-term sacrifices.

This is Parkinson's Law (bikeshedding) in action, imo.

> This is Parkinson's Law (bikeshedding) in action, imo.

Common mistake, bikeshedding is the Law of Triviality[1], which is distinct from but often confused with Parkinson's Law,[2] likely because bikeshedding is also known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

Something about wind power brings concern trolls just swarming out of the woodwork.

See, people will make up any kind of shit just to make shit up.

There is absolutely no value at all in uniformity of wind turbines. And they are not, in fact, uniform. Those erected earlier are smaller than those erected later.

The overwhelming majority of wind turbines that will be put up haven't been put up yet. So painting some blades black (or blue, or what have you) is no burden -- the blades have to be painted, regardless. Probably it will end up needing only a little bit of paint, like just the leading edge, so the thermal signature is moot.

> See, people will make up any kind of shit just to make shit up.

> The overwhelming majority of wind turbines that will be put up haven't been put up yet.

All the cars to be made haven't been made yet, so why rely on current cars for analysis? The cognitive dissonance is staggering.

> There is absolutely no value at all in uniformity of wind turbines.

Saying there is not, is incorrect. In the very least, HAWTs are the same, which is what most people are think of, when talking about this topic.

> And they are not, in fact, uniform.

HAWT are, as they have no patterns, in the US.

Trolling is not welcome here.

The ironic reply is the icing.

Conversely, the thinking can go:

- You're proposing to change something

- That change might cause some harm

- Therefore this must not be done

It's a trolley problem, where you could do something, and might kill a few birds, or do nothing and stand by while nearly a thousand times more perish.