The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines
The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines
复制标题
工业风力机的审美不一致
作者：
J. Boone
Yuriko Saito最近在这本杂志上发表了一篇文章，“海洋中的机器：风电场的美学”（当代美学，2（2004））。她的大部分文章都是在寻找合适的美学理由，为海洋中的风力发电厂和岸上的风力发电厂辩护。由于风力发电不会向空气中排放毒素，而且其能源是经常性的，因此它有望成为化石燃料的清洁、可再生替代品。利用任何形式的能量的核心问题是，在生产和引导相对少量的过程中浪费了大量的能量。风力发电具有这种固有的困难;在工业规模生产风能的过程中存在重大损失。
Yuriko Saito recently published an essay in this journal, "Machines in the Ocean: The Aesthetics of Wind Farms" (Contemporary Aesthetics, 2 (2004)). The bulk of her essay is a search for the right aesthetic justification for windplants sited in the ocean as well as for those onshore. Because windpower does not emit toxins into the air and its source of energy is recurrent, it offers the promise of a clean, renewable alternative to fossil fuels. The central problem with harnessing any form of energy is that enormous energies are wasted in the process of producing and channeling a relatively small amount. Windpower has this inherent difficulty; there are significant losses in the process of producing wind energy at industrial scales.