Protesters rally to end wind power

[Macamus Prime]

Massive wind technology produces a relentless fusillade of pulsating sound, mechanical in pattern, audible to all and intolerable to many, particularly those sensitive to infrasound vibrations.

I can see how this is a poblem. Constant noise would irritate me. Now I'm interested in hanging out near one just to see how bad it really is.

Also,... it will make this noise when it's windy. How often is it windy where these people live?

 

[monovillage]

I can see how this is a poblem. Constant noise would irritate me. Now I'm interested in hanging out near one just to see how bad it really is.

Also,... it will make this noise when it's windy. How often is it windy where these people live?

If it isn't windy why would you put a wind turbine there?

 

[piasabird]

Try living next to a refinery and looking up at the black smoke billowing up in the sky! Nothing like the smell of rotten eggs in the morning.

Better yet, Build a Coal Fired power plant next to your home!

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Try living next to a refinery and looking up at the black smoke billowing up in the sky! Nothing like the smell of rotten eggs in the morning.

Better yet, Build a Coal Fired power plant next to your home!

Huh? I live less than 3 miles as the crow flies from a coal fired plant and never once noticed any odors or soot. I also have to question where you've seen black smoke billowing from a refinery or smelling a rotten egg odor.

None the less gotta love the NIMBY's that enjoy the fruits while at the same tiime wanting to chop down the fruit tree.

 

[bfdd]

Yeah you get a rotten egg odor driving right next to a refinery every now and then, big fucking deal. the NIMBY people are hilarious, NO NOTHING BECAUSE IT MAKES ME FEEL BAD! If we didn't do things because a small percentage of people had issue with it, we'd never get things done. I fail to see how these people are any different than those who bitch about nuke plants. well at least these people have legitimate gripes, the anti-nuke people have to create policy and regulation which make nuke material unsafe. NO YUCCA MOUNT NOT IN MY BACK YARD! lols, idiots.

 

[OutHouse]

It wasn't that hard to look. WTF did you say that?

[PDF] bird mortality fact sheet - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

thats all? whats the fuss about? i bet more birds are killed by cars than wind turbines.

 

[BladeVenom]

thats all? whats the fuss about? i bet more birds are killed by cars than wind turbines.

That's because there are a lot more cars than windmills.

 

[Kadarin]

I swear these people want us to live in a pretechnological stone age where we all sit by the campfire and hug trees and kittens.

 

[werepossum]

Your rage comes because you assumed most people were halfway intelligent and capable of rational thought. Then you found out that at least the loudest ones are actually just selfish morons who filter information only by whether its what they want to hear or not.

Here's an even better one. A community near my work has been a farming community since...basically European people got settled in the area. A handful of people have moved there from out of state recently, probably because of the pristine views. Some of them are complaining that it smells like cow shit outside when the farmers spread manure. These people seem to think food comes from a star trek replicator, or at the very least that the fact they've been there for a while 6 months means the farmers are the problem. I submit that if these folks thought that farms didn't spread manure when they moved in they probably should be drowned in a pit of it! Instead these morons complain in the local paper opinion section every year because for some reason they keep spreading shit every year.

Hilarious. Farming stinks, ergo make them stop farming so that I can enjoy living in this beautiful farm land . . .

I had to Bing wind turbine syndrome. I can see how subsonic sounds could be a problem, but the fact that she is "feisty" and yet is too sick to work even after moving away makes me call shens. Besides, only morons gather in crowds to chant and wave signs. (Unless the sign says something like "I SEE STUPID PEOPLE".)

 

[Yreka]

Here's an even better one. A community near my work has been a farming community since...basically European people got settled in the area. A handful of people have moved there from out of state recently, probably because of the pristine views. Some of them are complaining that it smells like cow shit outside when the farmers spread manure. These people seem to think food comes from a star trek replicator, or at the very least that the fact they've been there for a while 6 months means the farmers are the problem. I submit that if these folks thought that farms didn't spread manure when they moved in they probably should be drowned in a pit of it! Instead these morons complain in the local paper opinion section every year because for some reason they keep spreading shit every year.

We actually had to sign a waiver when we bought our house. It stated we understand the house is in a "rural" community, and basically it might smell accordingly on occasion..

I cant remember who the waiver was for ( Realtor, City, County, etc), but I remember the Realtor mentioning that it was due to a lawsuit for the exact same reason you mentioned. People moved out from the City and sued because it was not disclosed that they might catch a waft of manure on occasion during the Summer.

 

[Yreka]

I can see how this is a poblem. Constant noise would irritate me. Now I'm interested in hanging out near one just to see how bad it really is.

Also,... it will make this noise when it's windy. How often is it windy where these people live?

I drive through the Altimont Pass every day & can see the windmills from my back yard.

Unless they are right on top of these people, I cant imagine them being a legitimate issue. Even on the old 1980's turbines dont make much noise even standing right under them. The newer large / low RPM are dead silent. Maybe the ones near her house have bad bearings or something

Interestingly enough though, there are city ordinances about putting up your own (due to noise I believe). I would imagine the smaller "consumer" models could get fairly loud.

 

[Daedalus685]

Just curious, do you live next to a wind farm? Would you ever buy a house next to a wind farm?

I did, for years. I suppose that was not clear by my comments but these folks are all over my home town because so are the wind farms, along the shore of lake Erie near the mouth of the grand river.

Granted I did not 'own' the property I lived in while I was younger (hell I don't own my apartment now), but I didn't have a problem with them at all. For the sci-fi teenager nerd the things are profoundly cool. But they certainly did lower property values because it doesn't matter if I want to live under them if others don't. But it makes renting/buying cottages a buy low proposition right now.

It is a lot like the construction noise outside today (and all summer) that my partner hates to death with a bloody rage that prevents her from sleeping in after they start. They help feed anxiety of those that are anxious of them in the first place. Wind farms are almost silent though (in sound energy, if you pick and focus at it it will drive you nuts like anything else), unlike construction, but they are impossible to miss their presence if you are at all close to them. If you haven't seen one they are some of the biggest things I've ever seen outside of urban high rises.

I totally respect others not wanting their property value diminished because something some people hate gets built next door. But I take offence to spouting lies to get what they want rather than up and saying they value their personal wealth more than trying to reduce reliance on coal. Any property hit will be short term and only worse the more people rage (opinion not fact.. I'm not a Realtor).

 

[piasabird]

I would be more worried about fertilizer contaminating the ground water in farming areas. I lived surrounded by grape vinyards when I was in Italy. Of course some of the worse stink I encountered was from stock yards along highway 90 and the Human fertilizer they use to use in Korea. Woo Hoo Stinky. There was still enough stink rear stockyards that I could not even sleep in that town. I had to keep driving till I got our of range. That was crewel and unusual treatment.

 

[Keeper]

Here on Long Island, they are fighting them 4-5 miles offshore... Eyesore and bird kill.

I wish those people would move away. What does a wind turbine look like 5 miles away. EVEN on flat (relative, except for earth curvature) field.