Thursday, 23 August 2012

Wind Farm Developers Using 'Tricks' to Make Turbines Look Smaller

'Alan MacDonald, an architect based in Inverness, says that computer-generated images of turbines in planning applications are often little more than "artifice".

Small changes in the size of the photo, the angle at which it is taken, the zoom on the camera and how it is presented can all make turbines look smaller, he said. His concerns have been accepted by Scottish National Heritage, which issues planning guidance on "wind farm visualisation" across the whole of the UK.'

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