Everyone seems to support renewable energy (solar farms, wind turbines) on the surface, but as soon as you ask them if they would mind a 50-foot Wind Turbine in their backyard, NIMBY kicks in full-force.  New-Zealand company Truescape has found that visual simulations, conceptual animations combining actual simulated or measured data with site data, can go a long way to allaying these fears.

Measures to combat such objections have been developed and successfully implemented by a New Zealand-based company, Truescape. One method, time-lapse simulations, using actual site data (wind speed, wind angle, sun beams, turbine dimensions and rotational speed) can accurately depict how a wind farm would appear under the climatic conditions experienced during the course of a day,from dawn to darkness.

via Visual Simulations Allay NIMBY and Other Stakeholder Concerns on Renewable Energy Developments | Earth Times News.

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