'Whoosh' sound of wind turbines too loud for some

MSNBC ^ | October 5, 2010 | Tom Zeller Jr.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

VINALHAVEN, Maine — Like nearly all of the residents on this island in Penobscot Bay, Art Lindgren and his wife, Cheryl, celebrated the arrival of three giant wind turbines late last year. That was before they were turned on.

“In the first 10 minutes, our jaws dropped to the ground,” Mr. Lindgren said. “Nobody in the area could believe it. They were so loud.”

Lawsuits and complaints about turbine noise, vibrations and subsequent lost property value have cropped up in Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, among other states. In one case in DeKalb County, Ill., at least 38 families have sued to have 100 turbines removed from a wind farm there. A judge rejected a motion to dismiss the case in June.

Like the Lindgrens, many of the people complaining the loudest are reluctant converts to the antiwind movement.

“The quality of life that we came here for was quiet,” Mrs. Lindgren said. “You don’t live in a place where you have to take an hour-and-15-minute ferry ride to live next to an industrial park. And that’s where we are right now.”

[Marty62]

Aw poor babies. They were so happy to see those eysores and they got earaches. typical libs.

[BigEdLB]

They do break...

[353FMG]

And what is not picked off by seagulls will be eaten by sharks. Pretty soon windmill parks at sea will permanently attract sharks.

[SteamShovel]

What kind of climate impact does that bring? Worth thinking about.

The left will not bring this up until we have 100% dependence on windmills, then they will pull the rug out to create a new crisis.

There has to be a local effect as a minimum. The large scale impact of slowing the winds will be an interesting study.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Nothing is for free, and all processes are less than 100% efficient.

These are some of the basic truths of nature the left doesn't understand.

[Gaffer]

Then, I think it is feasible, as a reaction to the AGW theory, that WINDMILLS CAUSE AGW, too!!!!!!!! Hahahahhaahahaa

[bray]

Coal power plants are contained and produce cheaper power. Coal Rocks!

Pray for America

[slumber1]

They do break...

That was AWESOME!!!!!!

[stayathomemom]

I have wondered about that also.

[PDMiller]

I'm battling wind turbines within my city limits right now.

The article is typical in its dismissal of health concerns and property values, then cites studies by the wind lobbyists and Obama’s dept of energy! There are reasons to be concerned about effects on health when sited too close to dwellings and there are multiple independent studies showing loss of property values.

[Racer1]

I’ve been within a hundred yards of the wind turbines here in PA and the wind rustling through the leaves on the trees was louder than the turbines.

[Sparky1776]

I took a hike through a wind farm of about 60 turbines in Scotland two years ago, I couldn’t hear the turbines over the actually wind.

A bigger problem is the flickering shadow they cast, I would hate to have that hitting my house.

[Jacquerie]

And what if an endangered bird is killed by the turbines who will the libtard/envio-cultist gov. go after?

No one. Government motives are pure.

A local redneck in my area of north FL is in prison for shooting an eagle. Same outcome, but impure motive. Go to prison.

This is the kind of absurd thinking that eventually rationalizes gulags and concentration camps.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The only people who benefit from wind energy are the turbine manufacturers, the construction companies and union members who build the windmills, and the investors who collect the federal energy subsidies. Taxpayers and energy consumers just get higher taxes, higher energy bills, and sanctimonious lectures on why their very existence is a burden to the earth and all of mankind.

Wind power is a complete disaster

"Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."

[bgill]

Yours dropped? Mine is up - waaaay up.

[AmericaUnite]

We heard them on our honeymoon 20 years ago on the Big Island in Hawaii. No one lived near them at this far tip where people cast into the ocean and olivine is present in the lava rock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_Lae

I guess they have closed it down now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgN8KJxPTA

[okie01]

Ironic, the greenies big idea to eliminate one kind of pollution causes another kind of pollution.

My sis, the social worker, is a big fan of wind and solar.

Until she priced solar. It was "too expensive."

And until they tried to put a wind farm near her home in Kansas. It was "intrusive" and subject to "unwelcome noise" and "unwelcome vibrations".

Needless to say, shes still a big fan of wind and solar.

But "not in her backyard".

[4Speed]

Ping

[small farm girl]

...but they are like sculptures, I think they’re beautiful.

~me, pretending to be a crunchy MA lib. You are convinced, no?

[rabidralph]

I wonder what James Dyson thinks of all that "annoying buffeting"?

[ApplegateRanch]

I’ve been within a hundred yards of the wind turbines here in PA and the wind rustling through the leaves on the trees was louder than the turbines.

Thanks! I was beginning to think my ears weren't working right; didn't register the right frequencies or something.