Wind Farm
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- nb0
I think wind farms are gorgeous.
- dskz0
Don Quijote
- Nairn0
To heck with ill-formed opinion. We've barely scratched the surface of renewable resource utilisation yet.
- hans_glib0
If you read James Lovelock you'll discover how the whole wind turbine thing is a giant scam. It's not a reliable source of energy, requiring a conventional power station as a back up. It's not green, as tons of concrete and steel (=CO2) are needed to make each windmill (and then there's the transport to remote locations). It's just a visible way for politicians to say "hey, we're doing something", they're too dishonest (or scared?) to admit how effing useless these things are.
- Corvo20
^ In my initial appreciation, I forgot to add you can't ear them indoors.
- TruthHurts0
Ask Obama.
- GFYlocustsloth
- ^ forgot to say you can't hear them indoors. Just outsideCorvo2
- Corvo20
Why do I feel so old when rescuing backups from 2005?
- Corvo20
Shit, my CD's are not organised whatsoever. It's like an hippie-farm.
- Corvo20
Before I find pictures - let me say that this is a subject where I feel divided. The aesthetic impact is not good, but the outcome is - so honestly I have no clue what's right or wrong when it comes to this.
- kld0
get some wind chimes, problem solved
- Corvo20
I live near a wind-farm. Let me try to get some pictures to further explain my point (I have to dig on old photos on CD).
But in short, yeah, it's audible.
- Louder than a major road/highway a few blocks away?monospaced
- I guess it depends on a few things, also the make/model and if it's a windy area (it must be if they are there, just how windy)jimbojones
- just how windyjimbojones
- it depends on how the main winds go in a given terrain and where your house is set.Corvo2
- Not louder than a road. It's more like a constant hum-hum, which you're bound to neglect after habit.Corvo2
- I regret them in two ways: first of all there's a significant impact on landscape in what you can call the aesthetics.Corvo2
- (the mountains don't look so unexplored with those wind-mills on top)Corvo2
- (this may be bad for tourism)Corvo2
- Secondly, they do make noise (but I live near a 20 unit farm) and the place doesn't look the same any more.Corvo2
- It's not unbearable noise, though.Corvo2
- monospaced0
Whenever I've been near a wind farm, I find myself thinking about how peaceful they seem. They're almost beautiful. Just my two cents.
- locustsloth0
The whole NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) thing is what i'm struggling with. If this was taking place at the other corner of town, i wouldn't say boo about it. But when a few are sacrificing aethethically, mentally (if there IS any adverse audio or visual effects) and possibly financially, without consideration or compensation that is equal in proportion, "taking one for the team" doesn't sound that great.
That's why i was looking for people who've been near these things and can say "No, it's not that big of a deal"
- Jnr_Madison0
Everyone thinks they're great until they movie in next door.
- locustsloth0
Thanks lowimpakt. They've actually done this (which was only made available AFTER public meetings were held) and on the contour map my house is in the 30-35db range, which is said to be like standing 3ft from a running fridge. i'm not sure if that'll drive me nuts or not
Also, both of the visual mockups (pics with wind turbines 'shopped in) and the baseline noise monitoring stations were twice the distance from the proposed site as my house is. It seems a bit fishy, but maybe i'm just distrustful
- jimbojones0
shadow flicker sucks, but it's only on sunset. no noise, at least not audible to me from about a mile
- oh good. The flicker would only effect us during sunrise, but the group proposing were kind of obfuscating that issue, so i was warylocustsloth
- wary of itlocustsloth
- it's distracting, but it hasn't happened too often while I was still living with themjimbojones
- CALLES0
what about the earth you insensitive orick! its her day!!