Comment Re:Can you elaborate? (Score 1) 670
There are three points that I know why people are really bothered by the wind mills:
1. horizon pollution: This may not be bothering everybody, but I personally think that preserving a beautiful horizon is very important. IMHO, windmills sticking out into the sky everywhere you look doesn't make a landscape any more beautiful. The region of my hometown certainly lost attractivity for tourists due to the windmills and I know that properties and houses lost a lot of value because of the windmills.
2. high frequency sound: windmills produce a high frequency sound. You won't hear this sound during day, but when you lie in bed at night and have your windows open in warm summer nights and everything is silent, you might hear this sound. The frequency is so high that not everybody is hearing it, but I know a lot of people who can hear it and have a real problem to sleep with this sound.
3. disco effect: Many people that live close to windmills have a so-called disco-effect in their houses. Disco-effect means that you have the shadows of the rotating rotor blades in your house, which looks like the light effects in some discotheque or techno club. This is also very annoying.
The second and third point only apply if you have a windmill less than a mile close to you. Since the minimum distance by law between a house and a windmill is only 300 meters (at least in my hometown), there are quite many people there that have a windmill within 1 mile of them.
The people in my hometown began to take actions against new windmills and there hasn't been a permit during the last 5 years. But the ones that have been built before will be there for a very long time and bother them with the effects described above.
As I said before, renewable energy is great, but I can understand quite well why people don't want them close to their houses. There are enough possibilities to build them where they don't bother anybody.
1. horizon pollution: This may not be bothering everybody, but I personally think that preserving a beautiful horizon is very important. IMHO, windmills sticking out into the sky everywhere you look doesn't make a landscape any more beautiful. The region of my hometown certainly lost attractivity for tourists due to the windmills and I know that properties and houses lost a lot of value because of the windmills.
2. high frequency sound: windmills produce a high frequency sound. You won't hear this sound during day, but when you lie in bed at night and have your windows open in warm summer nights and everything is silent, you might hear this sound. The frequency is so high that not everybody is hearing it, but I know a lot of people who can hear it and have a real problem to sleep with this sound.
3. disco effect: Many people that live close to windmills have a so-called disco-effect in their houses. Disco-effect means that you have the shadows of the rotating rotor blades in your house, which looks like the light effects in some discotheque or techno club. This is also very annoying.
The second and third point only apply if you have a windmill less than a mile close to you. Since the minimum distance by law between a house and a windmill is only 300 meters (at least in my hometown), there are quite many people there that have a windmill within 1 mile of them.
The people in my hometown began to take actions against new windmills and there hasn't been a permit during the last 5 years. But the ones that have been built before will be there for a very long time and bother them with the effects described above.
As I said before, renewable energy is great, but I can understand quite well why people don't want them close to their houses. There are enough possibilities to build them where they don't bother anybody.
