For the first time since the state began promoting wind power as a way to replace fossil fuels, environmental officials have recommended shutting down a wind turbine because of elevated noise levels, which they described as unacceptable to local residents. The findings give ammunition to increasingly vocal opponents of wind power, who have sought to slow the Patrick administration’s efforts to produce 2,000 megawatts of wind power - three-quarters of it from offshore sources - by 2020.
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Score one for the NIMBY's.
How can this be? The moonbats say this is the cure for all evils with no downsides?
time to call the mythbusters to actually measure the noise level?
Anybody know whether noise cancellation technology might be applicable here?
I have zero problem with wind turbines. However, I was at a friends house who lives near one and sound was annoying. I can understand how the noise can make you crazy and the lack of sleep would put me over the edge.
Wind turbine syndrome? And how does that compare to black lung? Our power is going to come from somewhere, and my guess is that folks would rather hear a turbine than radically decrease their energy consumption.
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