Wind Farm Noise You decide on the wind turbine

[JMCporsche]

what would you rather in your back yard, a Nuke plant or some windmills? That's not hard for me to answer

[Hagfan789]

i guess their good until the wind stops..i hear more complaints about the eyesore part of it then the noise.

[Antithropocentric]

Nice propaganda piece. The truth is that the noise get broadcast far from the towers in most cases, and is subject to local geography in a big way. And it varies depending on wind speed and turbine design.

I invite you to push your propaganda on people who have firmly documented their noise problems. Go hang out with them for a few days if you really think you're honest.

[CAESARbonds]

Most ppl complain because they want to get lots of money out of it.

I would sue those DANG birds. they are so loud :D

I would like to have one of these in my neighbourhood instead of the big coal fired plant.

In the netherlands they are very common and no one complains ;)

[KypHeM]

Dummy the noise is NOT NEXT TO THE TURBINE but 1000 feet away dumb.

[19psi]

@KypHeM

Odd, I've been right in the middle of a windmill farm with dozens of windmills ranging from a hundred feet to miles away and yet all I hear are crickets and the rustling of the vegetation.

The guy who made this video mentions Rensselaer which would mean he lives among one of the largest windmill farms in the world.

Since you feel he's a "dummy", please explain your expertise on the subject of windmill noise.

[TJDeadkid]

@KypHeM yeah same when i yell you can hear me from upclose but you dont want to be 1000 feet away its fricken loud

[WednesdayAdams1968]

I live next to busy street. The noise from traffic that I hear when I am inside my appartment is much louder than the windmills.

[ACTIONNOTWORDS]

It always amazes me that there are windy nimbys who complain about turbine "noise" yet have not been within a mile of a wind farm !!!! I have visited a good few both on and offshore and can state for the record that wind farms ARE NOT NOISY, but then when is the truth of interest to the windy nimbys....in fact, when it comes to opposing wind power, pretty much anything goes ! Bring it on !!!!

[crapper1]

the chirping birds are louder than this thing

[Heat808]

damn those birds are soo loud

boo wind farms!

these things are incredible <3

[kitfoxflyer]

@Heat808  LOL

[cipmars]

Would the whiney complainers rather have a noisy thermo or a dirty atomic powerplant in the nearby? That is the question. It seems to me that some people love to complain. There is hunger and disease in the world and some spoiled treehuggers complain about the noise of the windmills... Sheesh!

[kitfoxflyer]

@cipmars LOL so true

[Antithropocentric]

@cipmars, what a simple-minded analysis of the situation. Zero empathy. Watch the series on YT called "The Voices of Tug Hill" and try to put your small-minded self in their situation. That series is just one example of many, but it's thorough.

It's telling that you use the term "treehuggers" because it echoes the fact that turbine-pushers are often greenwashers who don't care what these towers are doing to rural landscapes. I see turbine builders as akin to natural gas fracking mercenaries.

[cipmars]

@Antithropocentric Well, then thank you for your complicated-wide-minded comment. I still think that the turbines are a little quieter and cleaner than the thermos and just a bit safer than the nuclears. And the next time you reply to my comment, try not to call names and be offensive. That's not very smart, no matter how smart you want it to sound.

[Antithropocentric]

@cipmars, a good number of people are having their lives ruined by these contraptions (not to mention the untold sonic & physical damage to wildlife) yet you call those people "whiney complainers," and insist that I'm calling people names? Get some context!

The other half of the problem is the massive visual blight. I just can't see tall turbines as "green" in any reasonable context unless they're far out to sea. Keep in mind a 2009 Stanford study that said 3.8 MILLION of them may be needed.

[cipmars]

@Antithropocentric I'm not sure if your 16:9 vision lets you see that I was only talking about the noise. Eather way you put it, these are far cleaner than any other ways of generating electricity. I bet you that if you build solar pannels people would be desturbed by the shadow, the birds and the bugs won't have any room to lay eggs. Anything has pros and cons, but the noise of the windturbines is not the biggest one of all.

[mrbobsshow]

Hey Kit lovin your video and thank you for subscribing to my channel would love to see some more videos of the flyer amd what all thw controls do i am very interested in your plane so PLEASE do a video of it I think it wouls be awesome and looking forward to seeing it.

[springtrucker]

I worked on the old lattice towers in palm springs for a bit, but the newer 1.5 mega watt towers are very quite. Most land owners around where I live are getting paid over $10,000/ tower.

[kitfoxflyer]

10k a tower  WOW

[springtrucker]

It doesn't seem like much per year. It cost's around 2-3 million to erect 1 tower...the towers are built for 20 years. They make approximately $20 million a tower over their lifetime.

[DeafRedneck]

At louis brooks ranch in Sweetwater TX the ranch owner is getting paid $500. a month off of each tower there is 154 towers on his 14,000 acers ranch so he is getting paid $77,000. a month off of these things. I camped and rode horses there for the weekend. The noise was not the issue with me.

[springtrucker]

Thats $18,480,000 over a 20 year period. Not bad, Huh? And even on most farms with livestock, the animals have the right away, which means...if a technician goes out to service a tower, he has to wait for cattle, horses, sheep, etc, to clear the road before he proceeds.

[isaacpeters]

The people that whine are just babies because I live about 300 yards from a railroad track. They park and trade off crew behide my house. Ive been here a 1yr 1/2 and after about 1 month I was not affected by the noise anymore. They just like to piss and moan.

[kitfoxflyer]

@isaacpeters

gotta agree to a certain degree.

my neighbors are spreading pig shit last few days upwind from me but I just breathe the coutry air LOL

[noelloveys]

I suffer, if you can call it that from tenitis. The sound of the windmill is hardly offensive to me. History tells us that when railroads were first being built people said that the sound of trains would drive them nuts and thier cows were too stressed to give milk'

Give me a break.

[kitfoxflyer]

ALso my chainsaws make noise when i cut the firewood to heat my home, shop and hot water. But it a compromise, O have to give up something to get something

[lahusso]

They are placing these one wind turbine for every

100 acres in most places.First Horizon Wind Energy does it.They take two small towns in

Upstate New York to do one project of 15 wind

turbines.They end up taking several thousand acres for just 15 of these.100 acres is alot just for one when one acre would allow for setbacks and for falling eyc.

[kitfoxflyer]

I don;t hear anything today -- wind is calm here . We have one on a hanger here to power a 12 C battery -- it a bit noisy when windy but it needs 20 to 30 km wind to spin it .

[Billy982810]

You fucking cocksuckers dont have a fucking clue. I guess you have to be an expert in sound and be able to hear it and able to record it and be one of the ones that loose sleep over this god dam sound. Dave your being a tit. Just because it doesn't bother you dont mean that it isn't effecting other people. I live 40 miles from these and the noise is painful. Not to just me but to all my friends. We all have to run a fan in our bedrooms to drowned out the noise so we can get some sleep.

[Billy982810]

I hear the fucking sound right now it never goes away

[dovesmagic]

I was barely able to hear the thing myself. The wind and the birds were louder than the slight whine of the turbine. Common sense wins again!

[tremer88]

thanks for the sub, and i agree, people complain about not having alternative energy, and then complain about the technology.

[Billy982810]

The low frequency sound that they generate is a very long wave. you can hear it best from about 25 miles away. You cant hear it up close the wave takes at least two miles to get going. The sound is not audible to you camcorder. I have a mic that will pick it up. and I have recorded the sound from 40 miles away. 52hz.

[seawind0721]

It's only annoying if you sleep directly underneath it. I did that once, while I was in the army.

[ethen24]

If they pay me enough rent money, they can put one of those in my backyard, I don't care...just as long as it don't fall over on my house!

[enfieldpolice]

I guess people rather purchase foreign oil , to run the lights . F-them !!self-reliance !!

[ihatefatchicks666]

To tell the truth, In my opinion, Wind mills (turbines to be up to date) are alot more convienient than what many homes in a America use today, coal and natural gas burns louder than that turbine...is that even a ligitamite question? lol

[talfacprez]

I think there is a large group of people that complain just to try to make everyone else as miserable as they are.

[jdgun97]

@talfacprez You could not be more right!