[La Lydia]

There is an excellent video at the link. We sleep with a white noise machine going in the bedroom, so I don't think this would bother me, but some of these people are really unhappy.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Keith Olbermann is a white noise machine.

[pingman]

Consider the ramifications of going from living in an idyllic Maine island setting; nature, peace and quiet in copious amounts, then one day everything changes.

A constant ‘whoop’ ‘whoop’ ‘whoop’ of the rotor blades, day in, day out.

I know they were originally in favor of it, but I’d be some pissed off too. Reality bites hard.

[FourPeas]

I have tinnitis, so what’s another annoying noise that won’t go away? </sarc>

Seriously, I can understand completely why people wouldn’t want that noise, and why property values would plummet.

[FReepaholic]

Maybe they need to start using Dyson Fans. They don't have blades.

[AU72]

Expect to see a drop in the seagull population there as well. Plus moving parts like that outdoors in Maine with sea air, ice etc. will be bitch to maintain.

[Sparky1776]

I honestly don’t think noise is much of a factor, flickering shadows from the blades are though - I hate to have them in my house.

[andonte]

No wonder Ted Kennedy didn’t want any of these near Martha’s Vineyard.

I wouldn’t want them near me either. They’re monolithic and other-worldly.

[pgkdan]

When I was a kid we lived right alongside a highway that had heavy truck traffic all night long. The house was literally less than 20 feet from the traffic lanes. When we first moved there no one in the family could sleep. 5 years later when my folks bought a house in the country no one could sleep without the traffic noise. I think you can get used to anything.

[ontap]

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

These two are like so many before them...everything has it's drawbacks. Clean energy is no different. They got what they wanted it is just not what they thought it would be. Might do a little more investigating next time!!

[camle]

there also seem to be a lot of complaints that there are fewer deer and moose around since these things came online. when I asked them what’s the diff between these windmills and those mole chaser windmills, other than size, they got all defensive about the project.

it stands to reason that if a small windmill repels small rodents, wouldn’t a large windmill have the same effect upon larger species?

[CharlesWayneCT]

It would make me unhappy because who wants to live in a world where there is a constant annoying background noise all day, every day?

[Sakity Yaks]

So replace them with nice quiet nuclear generators. Problem solved,

[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)."

[nutmeg]

VINALHAVEN, Me. — 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.”

Now, the Lindgrens, along with a dozen or so neighbors living less than a mile from the $15 million wind facility here, say the industrial whoosh-and-whoop of the 123-foot blades is making life in this otherwise tranquil corner of the island unbearable.

They are among a small but growing number of families and homeowners across the country who say they have learned the hard way that wind power — a clean alternative to electricity from fossil fuels — is not without emissions of its own...

Who didn't see this coming? These windmills look "OK" when viewed from a distance, away from homes and out in the middle of "nowhere", but they're awful up close. How disgusting that these things are now polluting areas of beautiful coastal Maine...

[N. Theknow]

My first visit to Altamonte Pass in California in 1990's I saw wind turbines for the first time.

They were all over the hills! Couldn't help but wonder what those beautiful foothills looked like before the turbines went up.

Then I saw a large bird circling in the air.

PHOOM! Nothing but a cloud of feathers in one of the turbines!

[Psalm 73]

National Review had a great article on wind power and the ensuing wind turbine grave yards they have spawned.
Oil - pump it, burn it - quiet, clean, and safe.
Drill, baby, drill.