Wind Farm Noise You decide on the wind turbine

I stopped by a wind farm and listened to the wind turbine and the noise it makes. Heck my washing machine or dishwasher makes more noise. You decide. @ 4000$ an acre per year rent I say -" how much land would you like to rent ?"

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[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

[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

[talfacprez]

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

[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.

[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.

[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 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, 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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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 ;)