Wind turbine tourism gaining momentum

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The pure size and gage of wind turbines, which can stand more than 240 meters high and revolve as much as 320 kilometers per hour, is every so often used against them.

In Britain’s House of Commons in 2022, Neil Parish, at that time an MP and chair of a powerful environmental group, expressed a characteristic opinion. Parish said that why do people come to several of their districts? Since, they are beautiful. He said that tourists love to visit them; however, these visitors do not come in search of solar or wind farms.

Parish added that a number of enterprises now arrange for wind farm tours for enthusiastic tourists who are keen to comprehend how the turbines function and what they look like from close.

In Scotland, adventure seeker visitors can mountain bike and trek in an onshore wind farm. Boat tours in the U.K. and U.S. offer one the choice to sail right beneath a turbine’s blades. In Denmark, small groups can very well ascent an offshore turbine on their own.

Although there are no records to specify the size of this budding share of the hospitality segment, there is a plenty of research to put forward that travelers are not only interested in wind farms, but they find them fascinating objects.

Jeremy Firestone, a University of Delaware professor said that wind turbines are the largest rotational devices in this earth. They even dwarf a 747. At sea, they appear unearthly. Professor Firestone took a group of students on a wind farm tour off the shore of Rhode Island in 2016. He dubbed the experience as the Disneyland for adults.

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