[dfwgator]

NIMBYs.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Go live next to the interstate.

[EagleUSA]

Liberals are lost. They whine about the lack of alternative power sources, then after you provide them, they whine about them....I wish I had a magic wand I could wave and make them all disappear from the face of the earth. It would be such a nice place then.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Another idiotic liberal experiment ends in rejection by normal sane people. Who would have thunk it?

[kinoxi]

Sucks to be a peon. Too bad they weren't elites.

[ozzymandus]

There’s a big battle raging in my area about a proposed wind farm. All the rich NIMBY’s are in a tizzy, writing letters to the editor saying “My view of the sunset from my half-million dollar home will be ruined!” Apparently, they are totally clueless about how little sympathy that whining will get them from the working stiffs like me.

[Jedidah]

Wonder what lack of electricity would do to their quality of life.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Neighbours also claim that the constant hum and the loud "whooshing" sound made by the blades in high winds is destroying the value of their homes.

But the sound of the high winds alone was always OK...

I'm in the middle of a Nor'easter right now. The sound of the wind is destroying the value of my home. Who can I sue?

[familyop]

"Those who said they were made ill by the sound of the wind farms, which are designed to benefit the environment, described conditions ranging from migraines and palpitations to depression."

LOL! Jealous, dishonest, PC neighbors are funny!

[sageb1]

""The unfortunate thing about noise just about anything is that it can be a subjective perception. Some people can be more sensitive than others.""

Considering where this rep probably stands on political issues, does she realize what she said could come back to haunt her?

That said, silence is golden and constant noise is unhealthy.

[tubebender]

Swooshy Wooshy ping...

[Lost Dutchman]

Do any libs understand that they have to get a life before it can have any quality?

[M203M4]

Since it is only affecting five of the 126 wind farms in the UK, is aerodynamic modulation (which I take to mean ‘beats and resonance’) in this context caused/enhanced by topography (ie are the wind farms that exhibit aerodynamic modulation in, say, relatively flat areas?), and/or is it related to the relative positions of the turbines?

[nctexan]

And the caribou herds in England have declined greatly since the advent of the wind generators.

Oh... sorry, wrong environmental protest.

[Smokin' Joe]

Funny how you can wave a fluorescent light bulb under a high tension line and watch it light up, and be told the fields have no effect, but the noise from windfarms gets blamed for the hens not laying and 'bessie' giving sour milk.

After all, these people should be thankful, the windfarms are there to keep them from getting too warm--for free.

Shoveling snow causes increased metabolic rates and the emission of additional carbon dioxide and water vapor (both greenhouse gasses) when compared to the same individual at rest. Sounds like a cold climate could be self correcting.../sarc, of course.

[RunningWolf]

Other than the occasional wind turbine out on a farm somewhere they are not a good idea.

To imagine that a sea of wind turbines will be a reliable solution the mass energy crisis is not a realistic answer.

Like I said, a few of them in isolated applications will work. If I had a 50 acre spread, I would have a wind turbine there, solar power, and anything else they come up with to augment my daily utility needs, but a wire to the powerplant would still be needed also.

[sport]

That is o.k.

The muslims will see to it that you are not around long enough to really inconveince you.

[tflabo]

May we recommend...

[Zeroisanumber]

Bah. I lived near an interstate for years, you get used to the white noise after a while.

[steve86]

Two weeks ago I stood directly under a three blade, two-hundred foot turbine in approximately 35-40 mph winds (had to sneak in to the site, although they don’t try very hard to keep out trespassers). My main impressions was that, although you can hear a low-frequency “whoosing”, it is certainly not loud by any stretch of the imagination. The wind around me was almost louder, although of different frequencies. Although I was alone, I would think a person’s normal speaking voice (for standing in the wind on a hill) would be louder than the turbines. My other impression is that it is scary looking at the blades come down toward you at about 150 mph. I didn’t stand right under the blade's path for very long, because I suppose something could be thrown off them at that speed as well, although I saw no dead birds around the base, or anything else unusual on the ground.