Windpower: "ruining the view." Has anyone thought to paint the turbines blue?

Question

The sky? BLUE
The water? BLUE
The wind-turbines making electricity? WHITE? Why?!!!!!!!!

Paint them blue - and everyone will be happy! Make the backs of them white so ships don't bump into them, okay?

This is the most important post I have ever posted, PLEASE star it, and get as many people as possible to see it. We need to cut down on oil - it's polluting everything, getting scarce, causing war, and one day it will run out.

Some people think the windmills in the ocean will ruin the view - if we camoflage them, that objection will be overcome.

Answer 1

My husband works on those huge commercial wind turbines. They are white for a REASON. On hot days, it can be as much as 120 degrees inside those turbines.

The men have already climbed strait up a 300 foot ladder to get there. Now they are inside a 120 degree turbine. There are of course no bathrooms, no running water at the top of those turbines. The only water they have is what they haul up there themselves.

They may be working at the top of a turbine for 2-10 hours at a time.

Now if you painted those turbines blue, and no longer sparkling white, they would absorbe the sun's heat, instead of reflecing it back.

The turbines would be too hot for humans to work inside. Special machinery, and computer parts inside the turbine would of course begin to fail at an alarming rate, due to the intense heat.

In short, wind turbines would actually fail, and be unable to work if they were painted white.

Sorry, I cannot star you post, since it would be a truely bad idea.

~Garnet
Homestead/Farming over 20 years

Answer 2

I say we don't have enough windmills, prettying up the view. I say more windmills! In fact, I'm going to get a miniature windmill on the edge of the yard to make it look like there's a real one in the distance. And as for the color, white blends with the clouds too much. I say hunter orange! I'd hate to have some poor pilot flying too low messing up my view.

There are cell towers with giant American flags on them and towers made to look like trees. I've even heard of them being put in church steeples, because people object to the view so much. Maybe we could save the pilots and keep the hippies happy at the same time. How about we make them look like giant 3 armed gorillas? There'll be tons of them, facing the wind and waving their 3 arms to all who pass by. Of course, small children will be terrified, but lets be honest; they have no business getting that close to windmills anyway.

Answer 3

What happens if the ship's route takes it to the front of the turbine, which would be painted blue, so having the back painted white doesn't do much good... Oil isn't polluting half as much, as everyone bitching about it... (people whining about oil, and the environment release more Co2 into the atmosphere than all the automobiles on the planet. People have been speaking longer, and cow's farting longer than cars have been around (by several thousands years) so everyone needs to shut up, and there won't be anymore global warming. As far the cows, can't do anything about them farting, because if you kill them, they still release the gases... lol

Also, the US alone has enough oil in reserves to drop gas prices by 2-3 dollars a gallon (practically give it away) and have enough to do so for years.... it's not that scarce, they just want you to think it is, so you'll pay more for it while the find alternative fuels (which they aren't in any hurry to do).

Answer 4

I would assume that they are a contrasting color for the same reason that there are flashing lights on tall buildings, and radio towers. If you make a tall structure hard to see, any number of things could run into it.

Ships don't only travel in one direction.

People have been ok with the Cell phone towers that have been cropping up all across the country, so the "windmills are ugly" crowd needs to simply get over themselves.

Answer 5

they are a terrible blot on the landscape.