Should we take the current appearance of the areas around Chernobyl and Fukushima into account in this comparison?
Similsrly, how attractive do you find oil derricks and strip-mined mountainsides? Oil pumps and coal mines have to be put where the fossil fuels are, even if we burn the coal 100 miles away and the oil in a car halfway around the world.
There's definitely a NIMBY aspect to this: wind farms have a higher chance of being near the well-to-do people who are complaining, who have already decided not to live near the coal mines.
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Date: 2013-04-05 12:45 pm (UTC)Similsrly, how attractive do you find oil derricks and strip-mined mountainsides? Oil pumps and coal mines have to be put where the fossil fuels are, even if we burn the coal 100 miles away and the oil in a car halfway around the world.
There's definitely a NIMBY aspect to this: wind farms have a higher chance of being near the well-to-do people who are complaining, who have already decided not to live near the coal mines.