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On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:13:52 -0400, JustWait
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Well, there is one up by one of our practice tracks. I have seen it a
dozen times, only once was it actually running and that day, it was
annoying as hell with the noise.. and it's nearly a half mile maybe a
mile as the crow flies to the mill from the track. Like I said though,
most times, it's not moving even though there is windy up there all the
time.

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How big was it?

The small, fast turning wind generators like you see on cruising
boats, roof tops and small towers can make an annoying whirring noise.
The big wind farms however use very large towers with slow turning
blades over 100 ft long. They are almost silent in my experience.

It's more insane right wing bull****. I've been near the ones on
Altamont Pass in CA, never heard a noise from them. I have a relative on
a farm in western PA where they have them now, and no noise.

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In article ,
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:13:52 -0400, JustWait
wrote:

Well, there is one up by one of our practice tracks. I have seen it a
dozen times, only once was it actually running and that day, it was
annoying as hell with the noise.. and it's nearly a half mile maybe a
mile as the crow flies to the mill from the track. Like I said though,
most times, it's not moving even though there is windy up there all the
time.

===

How big was it?

The small, fast turning wind generators like you see on cruising
boats, roof tops and small towers can make an annoying whirring noise.
The big wind farms however use very large towers with slow turning
blades over 100 ft long. They are almost silent in my experience.

It's more insane right wing bull****. I've been near the ones on
Altamont Pass in CA, never heard a noise from them. I have a relative on
a farm in western PA where they have them now, and no noise.

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the ones on Altamont are noisy if you are close. Especially the older ones.
If you fish or boat Bethany Reservoir you will be up close and personal with
the turbines.

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:49:08 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


I agree that onshore wind turbines are a lot better than anything in
salt water but we own boats, we know about salt water.

There are still noise and bird kill issues.. It does seem to be a high
paying job maintaining these things as long as hanging on a rope a few
hundred feet in the air is not a problem for you.
I am curious what the maintenance costs will be over time. These things
seem to be very fragile according to that show the Weather Channel
dropped in last week.

At least here on the East Coast, off shore is where the wind is. As for
bird kills, while unfortunate, compare the numbers to habitat loss of
open pit mining and such. As an aside, I use to work on an oil rig in
the Baltimore Canyon. I remember during migration, we would literally
fill 5 gallon buckets of dead birds, mostly small warblers, daily. I
can't remember if there was a storm that blew them out there, but most
of them flew there last mile. We were 100 miles off AC.