Farm windmills have worked well for centuries causing no damage and costing little. Why do we need huge expensive environmental damaging farms?

Haven’t windmills like in the pic above been used for hundreds of years to run well pumps? Those don’t cost millions to creat and millions to correct the damage the new ones cost after their short productive lives and cause no environmental harm?

Why not create individual choices? If I a windmill to help with my energy needs I construct one of the types that have worked successfully for hundreds of years on my own property?

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trollslayer · 46-50, M

I am guessing your point is that newer technologies sometimes only solve problems at the expense of those they create. Is this right?

Right now we have folks using chat gpt energy to tell them how to date. Seriously. And my car gps has told me to drive down railroad tracks. And - we might not need huge wind turbine farms if people would shut their lights off when they went to bed.

For years I drove around in a car from the 1960s that got 20mpg. And now I drive a much newer car that gets 20mpg. The difference? The old car was a 3speed with a 42Amp alternator and no weird-ass lighting effects or automations, and not quite as speedy.

You can live off the grid with some lifestyle adjustments and a little common life sense and basic understanding of physics. I have friends that do it.