Wind Nimby Rant

Freeway traffic (at 15 meters), vacuum cleaner 70db Annoying
Conversation in restaurant, office, background music 60db Quiet
Quiet suburb, conversation at home 50db "
Library/1.5 MW turbine at 1000feet 40db "
Quiet rural area 30 Very Quiet
Whisper, rustling leaves 20 "
Breathing 10 "
0 Threshold of hearing

You had me cracking up silly!! I was going to make a video just like this. Whenever I do, I'll make it as a video response to this. Cabasse, you hit the nail on the head!! Windpowerrocks, you seriously had me rolling on the floor! I was cracking up soooo bad!!!!!! Especially when the guy fell down at the end OMG You NEED to keep this up!

unlike those other nutty videos, we have the sound of your voice to compare with the background noise... if you cranked the volume up high enough to hear the blade turbulence, your voice would probably blow my speakers.

people are selfish, and don't care if their desires are detrimental to improvement in the world.

Noise - you don't know the half of it!!! Check out this Nuke power plant carrying out its regular siren testing, see NHEQaXqaIv4, it does this regularly!!! And anyway, why does it need a siren, is it to warn everyone to run for their lives when it all starts to go wrong!! Give me wind power any day!!

Keep up the good work Windpowerrocks! ;-))))

Hey thanks for the great video!!!
I love wind power! keep spreading the word!!!!!! Rick.

What an awful noise, all that whining and those arms flapping about, damm NIMBY. Still least the turbine is nice to look at though!!!;-))

At last, a voice of reason. Wind, tidal, on-shore, off-shore, bio-gas, whatever, isn't the answer. Dependency is the problem and renewables aren't the answer. When windpowerroocks wakes up and smells the coffee, he might just realise this. In the mentime, let's hope we don't manage to screw up enough of the countryside in this ill-though out renewables policy.

Hi Peanuts,
I agree that wind can't do it all and that we need an energy mix. Let's say, for example, that we did go for 'some' nuclear as you suggest. There is only just about enough uranium for one more generation of nuclear power stations. We'd still have to come back to renewables afterwards.
You might be interested to know that tidal turbines are not far away. There's one called SeaGen that's being trialed at the mo.
I'm no fan of nuclear: it's dirty, dangerous and expensive.