A dozen Cape Cod families say a new hi-tech wind turbine in their neighborhood makes too much noise and makes them physically ill, so they’ve hired an attorney to do something about it. 
WGBH.com has the story:
Standing on his home’s porch, Neil Anderson points through the thicket of trees in his front yard and across Blacksmith Shop Road towards one of his closest neighbors: A wind turbine.
“Right now we are 1,320 feet, which is one-quarter mile south of Wind One, which is Falmouth’s first wind turbine. It’s been online since April. And we’ve been trying to get it stopped since April,” Anderson says.
Wind One, as the turbine is officially called, is owned by the town of Falmouth and is located at the town’s wastewater treatment plant, where it stands 262 feet tall to the turbine’s hub. That’s about 10 feet taller than the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown. The blades extend just shy of 400 feet, which is about half the height of the John Hancock Building in Boston.
Oddly enough, the guy doing the complaining is a greenie. Anderson owns a passive solar company on Cape Cod.
The energy conservationist in Anderson considered wind power a good principle. He wasn’t alone — before the turbine switched on, Falmouth residents almost universally welcomed Wind One as a symbol of renewable energy and a way to keep taxes down.
“I was proud looking at it from this viewpoint — until it started turning,” Anderson said.
… “It is dangerous. Headaches. Loss of sleep. And the ringing in my ears never goes away. I could look at it all day, and it does not bother me. It’s quite majestic — but it’s way too close,” Anderson said.
The power of wind, apparently, is dwarfed by the power of hypocrisy.
Source: WGBH.org
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This was the reason Ted Kennedy did not want wind turbines off the coast of Hyannis Port near the Kennedy estate.
Yes, I did invite my neighbors over for iced tea. We were a tight little community, always helping each other out with one thing or another. Kind of the way people ought to be.
Also, more Americans have died on wind farms than nuclear power plants.
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/03/17/inconvenient-truth-wind-energy-has-killed-more-americans-nuclear
When I still lived in Kalifornia, I had a friend who lived in the mountains behind Taft, on the way to Santa Rosa. Nice guy. He'd worked for the LA power company, name excapes me, for 30 years. Guy was a great electrical engineer and after he retired he went solar and built his own arrays. He had a system that could actually track with the sun as it moved across the sky. He had a deisel generator system that he trickle charged with a small wind generator. The deisel generator pumped his water into three large 450 gallon plastic commercial cisterns and stood by as his backup for rainy days. This guy was way off the grid. The battery house for the solar collectors was 75 feet away from the house, just in case of an explosion. The batteries produce hydrogen gas as a by product, any random spark could be disasterous! He ran a 120 volt DC/AC system, DC for the batteries and AC for the deisel generator. Everything was quite complicated and some of it was downright scary. When you go off the grid for your electric power, you're in another world...the real world of energy conservation. There are thousands of dollars in initial outlay and hundreds of maintenance hours. You still have to buy deisel fuel and when you need new batteries, you need ten of them at a time at a per unit cost of around $275 apeice...then, I don't know about now, the price may have come down, though not much. This is probably where the curly fry light bulbs come into play because of the reduced energy consumption, remember, the house is on battery power and the EverReady bunny is nowhere in sight. Oh, and you can't stay up all night reading, or watching TV, or playing a video game because if you do that you trickle down your battery storage and may not be able to power up your toaster and coffee maker in the morning. I suppose that in about a decade's time you'll have finally paid off your system and it will start returning a dividend. Long story short, it might just be cheaper to piggyback off of your local energy utility!
I call this... retribution. If he is going to scream and shout the green gospel he should SACRIFICE himself for it. Don't complain if you like it so much then deal with it.
Amen, KQ. They should fence the damn fools in with their windmill and let none of them leave for any reason.
It is only right.
Did that dipshit from Massachewshitz ever register his multimillion dollar yacht in his home state? Just wondering... Sorry about my French - I took German in school.
Capitalism trumps them all.
I used to live in the Southern California Desert, Joshua Tree to be exact. Land of extremely high electricity rates, and lots of wind. So I put up a 600 watt generator, on top of a 30' pole, with a couple of solar panels for back up when the wind didn't blow. (That was usually a couple days per month.) The combination powered my garage quite nicely, with a freezer and washing machine and all my power tools. But the first night after putting up the generator, I woke up to the sound of what seemed to be Godzilla and Mothra fighting in the back yard. Yeah, when the wind gets going, the generator makes some noise. To me, it sounded like electricity being generated for my use, and I loved it.
Haha that is awesome (especially monster combat metaphor)
Of course you have no neighbors and it only supports your your garage. It is amazing how people are celebrating using wind technology like a culture wearing wooden shoes. There is a reason direct current electrical sources lost out to alternative current, it does not travel long distances! Since the greenhouse gas effect is a myth, the alternative energy movement is a bust.
Hey, it did exactly what I wanted it to do. And when drunk morons ran into power poles on the highway, and everyone else was without power while the repair work was being done, my freezer in the garage was humming along. And I kept working in my workshop. Why would you have a problem with that?
When we had a major earthquake, power in my valley was out for 4 days, since there was so much repair work to do. I would have hated to be without ice for my tea for so long. I did have neighbors, too. But they weren't wankers like these liberals.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Conservation!
"The difference between a Conservationist and a Developer is that a Developer wants to BUILD cabins in the woods, while a Conservationist ALREADY OWNS ONE!"
I noticed the secret immediately in the article. The guy doing the complaining owns a "passive solar company." He doesn't want the competition because his product is even more expensive and less efficient than the windmill. If he wants to sleep, he should get his house better insulated. However, lawyering up seems to always work. I expect the windmill will disappear in the near future.
Howabout a treadmill powered by unicorns???? I'm sure that unicorns would never fart, pee, or take a dump, nor would they eat anything. Ahhh, the wonders of living in Utopia. Pass the bong.
How come everybody's always down on unicorns? My unicorn, Vlad, is NOT a liberal. He's actually quite the capitalist, and anybody that gets in his way gets hurt.
rockinghorseguy.com
I heard that the unicorn majority tend to be conservatives so there you go...
This goes to show you - we're dealing with luddites here. They frame their arguments with rational-sounding positions. "We're just trying to lessen our dependence on foreign oil" (meant to appeal to conservatives, who they percieve as hopelessly xenophobic). "We're just trying to save the environment" (for soccer moms).
So here we are - they don't want the windmills. They don't want hydroelectric. Absolutely no nuclear. They don't want the solar panels. Oh no, they say. We want them on rooftops, not covering the desert. Well guess what. The only way to ever hope to provide enough electricity for all of greater LA is to cover the Mojave Desert with solar panels. AND the Sonoran too. A rooftop's worth gets you hot water, and not much else.
These people will protest against everything. That is what they do. When cars are completely eliminated, they will want to get rid of the horses (too much poop). When you have to cook in a fireplace because the wind is not blowing, or the sun is not shining, they will want to stop that too (wood produces even more greenhouse gases!). When you have to ride your bike to work, they will protest that (energy has to be used to build the bike, and when you're riding it, you are increasing the exhalation of CO2).
The fact is that they don't know what they want, other than to be against everything.
We need to realize that listening to these people makes as much sense as trying to discuss economics with the drunken, drug-addled bum lying on a NYC subway grate.