I'm having difficulty understanding why the neighbors would care about a wind turbine. Is it noisy? An eyesore to the neighborhood?
Do the neighbors have a legitimate gripe or are they just your typical busybody neighbors from hell?
Here's a picture of the Nygard house with said turbine (look in upper right of picture). To me, it just looks like an oversized bird feeder. Nothing to be getting your panties in a twist over.
There would seem to be other things going on here.....
Time to paint the house PINK and ORANGE and PURPLE.
He should have told them it was a priceless piece of art. I have seen similar things in front of public building that taxpayers paid a fortune for.
I worked near a row of houses in the country where one of them had a small turbine. In a 20 mph wind, the thing sounded like a police siren from 1000’ away.
But Nygard’s neighbors, Penny Rogers and Peter Lanpher, say that the 29-foot turbine’s blades come across a fence onto their own property. They also claim that the turbine is very loud and reflects the sun onto their property.
“If you sit on their deck, it is almost like you could reach out and touch it,” Tennant explained.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/mn-man-faces-six-months-in-jail-for-building-a-wind-turbine/202332/
How many turbines did he have. The picture shows one, but the story references ‘turbines’ and ‘pads’ suggesting some number.
“To me, it just looks like an oversized bird feeder.”
It appears to be a savonius type. I built one once out of oil drums. It Was noisy.