Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

If one is adequately compensated, that wouldn't really be such a problem.

At another wind turbine nearby, we heard from friends about serious problems with shadow flicker (they were partly in the shadow flicker of the rotor blades). That can indeed become quite annoying and burdensome, but even there they ultimately found a solution to minimize it (it is oriented differently at certain times, which reduces the disturbance of the houses by the shadow flicker).

Isn't that its own risk with every investment? Whether private or commercial. Only with something like this does everyone somehow start screaming. Whether it's the farmers who have problems with the harvest due to climate change, for which they are partly not entirely blameless, or ordinary citizens who suddenly have something placed in front of their door.

What if a kindergarten or refugee home is then built next to you? After all, you buy the plot on which you build, but not the surrounding area.

And what are they supposed to say within a 20 km radius around the airports and flight paths (F/S/B…)? :rolleyes:

For me, it's incomprehensible how anyone can live there. I wouldn't do that to my health. Just like living directly next to the railway line.

If adequately compensated, it wouldn't really be such a problem.

Yes, that is certainly part of the problem. You have your little house on the quiet edge of the village, someone sets up a wind turbine and pockets all the profit. You yourself only suffer damage. No wonder that then some frogs, birds, or whatever else are found to prevent the construction.

For me, it's incomprehensible how anyone can live there. I wouldn't do that to my health. Just like living directly next to the railway line. Yes, that is certainly part of the problem. You have your little house on the quiet edge of the village, someone sets up a wind turbine and pocket all the profits. You yourself only suffer damage. No wonder that then some toads, birds, or whatever are found to prevent the construction.

Sorry, but that's exactly what I mean. You buy a plot of land, not the entire surroundings and the beautiful view/peace. About 5 years ago, I bought a plot of land where there were no constant fires in the area. Should I now demand money from Mr. Climate Change because I don't want there to be frequent fires near my house?

What if a kindergarten or refugee home is built next to you? After all, you buy the plot of land you build on, but not the surroundings.

There are often local protests there as well. It's just usually smaller in terms of the area affected. You can see a wind turbine from much farther away, so it feels like more people get involved, even if they themselves aren’t direct neighbors. (See, for example, arguments like "But it ruins our landscape view!!") Otherwise, this is just a topic at many different places in Germany at the same time, so on the one hand it is simply more present and on the other hand it is probably easier to find arguments for it than for why the new kindergarten in Hintertupfingen in the district of Kleinhausen locally worsens the traffic situation too much and causes noise disturbance for the 2 nearby residents.

Isn’t that its own risk with every investment?

Sure, but that’s always easy to say when you’re not personally affected at the moment. Basically, it’s often actually the case that there is probably an equally good if not better suitable location somewhere else (often even nearby). And when you’re affected yourself, you take a closer look. "Look, it would be much better over there, why here?! That’s just really stupid!" And the answers to that are often not exactly very satisfying for the residents either. (The one wind turbine here was built, among other things, through a lot of initiative by the farmer who owned the land. The answer to "why here and not there" in that case is therefore "because someone owned it who was willing to push it forward," and far from "because it was the best location for it"). Basically, though, I agree with you that there is always a certain risk that something in the surroundings will change.

In our area, one was decommissioned, I believe from 1990. The thing was loud, it produced a piercing permanent humming sound. In contrast, we do not hear the 11 new ones within a 3 km radius. But we do see them; they are huge. And many more are being added.