Reading an article on E&T about wind farms causing stress and sleep loss and I can't understand why people complain about the noise and yet there are hundreds of thousands of people living much closer to main railway lines and major motorways etc? Surely they generate more noise than a windfarm? I live close to a windfarm (you can see the turbines from my bedroom window) and they're not that noisy?
We are living near a brand new wind farm of 8 units In France and to be truthful the only noise we hear is the swish of the rotating blades it is very soothing I find, but then living with tinnitus it creates a noise that helps.
The technology that has gone into these units seems to makes them more acceptable and the humming of the machinery inside can only be heard just a few metres away, the most annoying part is the flashing lights which one of the 8 stays white at night instead of changing to red.
It is a choice between wind ,wave & solar power against coal,gas,oil or Nuclear none of the last 4 would we like on our doorstep or even down the road from us
Coal stations are inherently dirty create noise and causes fracking to be thought about and used to get coal and traffic up and down the road,
gas and oil need wells to extract them pipes to supply them or massive storage facilities on site and again create noise less than the coal station but still noise and traffic up and down the road.
Nuclear stations are clean still create some noise but are perceived by many people to be a risk to life no-matter how safe they are reported to be and of course traffic up and down the road
One of the better solutions is the solar power farms which have the disadvantage of only work in daylight hours but are clean quiet and the latest units can produce surprisingly a good supply of power even on dull days
We are living near a brand new wind farm of 8 units In France and to be truthful the only noise we hear is the swish of the rotating blades it is very soothing I find, but then living with tinnitus it creates a noise that helps.
The technology that has gone into these units seems to makes them more acceptable and the humming of the machinery inside can only be heard just a few metres away, the most annoying part is the flashing lights which one of the 8 stays white at night instead of changing to red.
It is a choice between wind ,wave & solar power against coal,gas,oil or Nuclear none of the last 4 would we like on our doorstep or even down the road from us
Coal stations are inherently dirty create noise and causes fracking to be thought about and used to get coal and traffic up and down the road,
gas and oil need wells to extract them pipes to supply them or massive storage facilities on site and again create noise less than the coal station but still noise and traffic up and down the road.
Nuclear stations are clean still create some noise but are perceived by many people to be a risk to life no-matter how safe they are reported to be and of course traffic up and down the road
One of the better solutions is the solar power farms which have the disadvantage of only work in daylight hours but are clean quiet and the latest units can produce surprisingly a good supply of power even on dull days
