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?
My neighbours get stressed if they have to park their cars more than 10ft from their front doors, so I'm not suprised that people get stressed by wind farms when they are bothered by such trivial matters.
I do agree that we'd all sleep better and be less stressed if there were no wind farms, or in fact no infrastructure to generate power at all. Then we'd have no electricity to charge our mobile phones, no trains to take us to work and no light polution - we could just sit at home all day reading detective novels by candlelight. I can see the appeal ;-)
My neighbours get stressed if they have to park their cars more than 10ft from their front doors, so I'm not suprised that people get stressed by wind farms when they are bothered by such trivial matters.
I do agree that we'd all sleep better and be less stressed if there were no wind farms, or in fact no infrastructure to generate power at all. Then we'd have no electricity to charge our mobile phones, no trains to take us to work and no light polution - we could just sit at home all day reading detective novels by candlelight. I can see the appeal ;-)
