A wind farm of eleven industrial turbines off the coast of Aberdeenshire has been approved by the Scottish government. The project was opposed by Donald Trump, who claimed that the turbine “monstrosities” would interfere with the expansion of his golf paradise.
Mr. Trump recently disclosed plans for a 140 bedroom hotel that he claimed would be listed “among the finest hotels in Europe”, with one condition: “If plans for the ugly industrial wind turbines proceed, we would obviously not build this hotel.”
WIND FARM DEMO
Here at DP, we are highly skeptical of wind farms at the scale now contemplated for coastal locations, not because of their impact on tourist vistas but because we question the projections for net energy generation from the costly turbines; we would even venture a prediction that the total cost of these “farms” across the full cycle of their operation (including as of yet unknown health and ecological impacts) will significantly exceed the value of the energy produced.
For now, though, let us focus on what Mr. Trump proposes as a more attractive visual spectacle for visitors to Aberdeenshire:
WORLD CLASS GOLF FARM
We are struck by the remarkable aesthetic similarity between the wind farm turbines and the “turbined” energy vents of this monstrous aggregation of rentable sleeping units.
The nautical reference for this particular mode of tourist accommodation is provided by the Carnival cruise turbine:
GLOBAL VACATION FARM
Stripping away all pretense and ornament, the deep aesthetic for both the Trump hotel and the Carnival cruiser derives from that ultimate expression of dense conveyance:
THE AESTHETIC OF DENSITY
The more dense the concentration of energy and experience, the greater the profit, with all the trappings of power. Yet in the wind we hear a timeless prophecy, that all these hubristic monuments are destined for the same end:
RUINS OF AN ANCIENT SOLAR POWER GENERATOR
Desperado Philosophy 