Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

And the parts are loud, one kilometer is not enough if you are downwind.

Well, my parents live 500 meters as the crow flies from such a 200-meter-tall thing (it was built before the regulations with greater distances existed). I have often walked right past it, and yes, these things are not quiet, but they are not THAT loud either. At my parents' place, you absolutely don’t hear anything from it. They are also protected by a few houses, but even if you go to the closest one... yes, you hear a faint background noise... and then the highway nearby is 1000 times louder (despite a noise protection wall). At my parents’ place itself, the country road in front of the door is even louder (and above all, noticeably more irregularly loud than both the wind turbine and the highway). That is probably also the main point. It is, of course, always annoying when new burdens arise that didn’t exist before. Nevertheless, the legal regulations and resistance in this area are sometimes disproportionately large, especially when you compare them with other regulations. Otherwise, before the construction, we really witnessed absurd discussions ("that spoils the landscape" and "then you drive around the curve on the country road and get scared by the monster! That greatly increases the risk of accidents!!" - I’m not joking).

At another wind power plant nearby, through friends, we heard about serious problems with shadow flicker (they were sometimes in the shadow flicker of the rotor blades). That can be really annoying and stressful in some cases, but even there they ultimately found a solution to minimize it (it is aligned differently at certain times, reducing the shadow flicker disturbance on the houses).

What I find difficult sometimes are the devaluations that arise for the next-door neighbors. If I had just built a costly new house and then a wind turbine was put right in front of my door, I would probably be pissed off at first, too. The argument "then just move somewhere else if it bothers you" is not always necessarily easy.

Otherwise, my parents really hit the lottery regarding infrastructure construction nearby ;) A railway line exactly through their house is also under discussion (even if alternatives are now being discussed, it’s just not proportional when for a few minutes of time savings a completely new route is drawn through the landscape for many many kilometers). That’s probably the problem when you live a bit outside the village in a less populated area....

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.