The use of energy from wind has a multi-faceted relationship to visibility. Between 1973 and 1991, various actors in the West German environmental movement made assertions about the visibility of renewable sources of power, but wind energy took on a particular prominence. In this article, the question of how different actors have used knowledge and the materiality of wind turbines for competing purposes is explored. Environmentalists attempted to create visible signs of a valid alternative energy future by tinkering with small, decentralized wind turbines, while the Federal Republic of Germany's Ministry of Research and established energy providers used the failure of the state-subsidized large-scale wind-energy project GROWIAN to criticize renewables and brand their application as misguided. In both cases, actors created new wind energy visibilities to convey their conflicting interests—pitting those advocating a new, environmentally friendly energy system against those who sought consolidation of the large-scale fossil-nuclear energy system.

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可见风：1973-1991 年西德风能新可见性的产生

风能的使用与能见度有着多方面的关系。1973 年至 1991 年间，西德环保运动的各个参与者都对可再生能源的可见性提出了主张，但风能尤其突出。在本文中，探讨了不同参与者如何将知识和风力涡轮机的重要性用于竞争目的的问题。环保主义者试图通过修补小型分散式风力涡轮机来创造有效替代能源未来的明显迹象，而德意志联邦共和国研究部和成熟的能源供应商则利用了国家补贴的大型风能项目 GROWIAN 的失败批评可再生能源并将其应用贴上错误的标签。在这两种情况下，