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Americans don’t hate living near solar and wind farms as much as you might think (wapo.st)
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As renewable energy becomes more widespread in the United States, large and bipartisan majorities of Americans say they wouldn’t mind fields of solar panels and wind turbines being built in their communities, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

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[-] naonintendois@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Every time I've driven past a wind farm I think it looks amazing. I would love to just stare at them from my backyard if they weren't all in the middle of nowhere.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

As someone who used to drive up and back from LA to the SF Bay Area in college all the time, I always enjoyed going through the Altamont Pass and all the windmills they stick up there.

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